Table 1.
Characteristics of Hispanic women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer by nativity, California, 1988–2004.
| Characteristics | Foreign-Born N=18,033 n (%) |
US-Born N=17,101 n (%) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age at diagnosis (years) | |||
| ≤44 | 4,590 (25.5) | 4,109 (24.0) | |
| 45–54 | 4,721 (26.2) | 4,363 (25.5) | |
| ≥ 55 | 8,722 (48.4) | 8,629 (50.5) | p <0.01 |
| Stage at diagnosis | |||
| Localized | 9,010 (50.0) | 9,340 (54.6) | |
| Regional | 7,133 (39.6) | 6,079 (35.5) | |
| Distant | 944 (5.2) | 865 (5.1) | |
| Unknown | 946 (5.2) | 817 (4.8) | p <0.01 |
| Histologic subtype | |||
| Ductal | 12,314 (68.3) | 11,987 (70.1) | |
| With lobular component | 2,159 (12.0) | 2,245 (13.1) | |
| Other | 3,560 (19.7) | 2,869 (16.8) | p <0.01 |
| Estrogen Receptor (ER) status* | |||
| ER positive | 6,864 (50.8) | 6,887 (56.1) | |
| ER negative | 3,050 (22.6) | 2,728 (22.2) | |
| Missing | 3,596 (26.6) | 2,652 (21.6) | p <0.01 |
| Tumor size | |||
| < 2 cm | 6,414 (35.6) | 7,162 (41.9) | |
| ≥ 2 cm | 9,921 (55.0) | 8,498 (49.7) | |
| Unknown | 1,698 (9.4) | 1,441 (8.4) | p <0.01 |
*
Limited to 25,777cases diagnosed from 1994–2004.