Table 1.
Characteristics of Patients in the Sample of Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer
| Characteristic | Patients (N = 2,492) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| No. | No. Evaluated | % | |
| Ethnicity | |||
| African American | 326 | 13.1 | |
| White | 1,793 | 72.0 | |
| Other | 16 | 0.6 | |
| Unknown | 357 | 14.3 | |
| Age at diagnosis, years* | |||
| Mean | 68.3 | ||
| SD | 10.4 | ||
| Median | 68.5 | ||
| Range | 24.6-94.3 | ||
| Sex | |||
| Male | 2,439 | 97.9 | |
| Female | 53 | 2.1 | |
| Cancer stage | |||
| I | 763 | 30.6 | |
| II | 921 | 37.0 | |
| III | 808 | 32.4 | |
| Calendar year of diagnosis† | |||
| 2003 | 248 | 10.0 | |
| 2004 | 1,118 | 44.9 | |
| 2005 | 978 | 39.3 | |
| 2006 | 148 | 5.9 | |
| 1-Year mortality by stage at diagnosis | |||
| I | 37 | 763 | 4.9 |
| II | 54 | 921 | 5.9 |
| III | 95 | 808 | 11.8 |
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.
*
Data were based on 2,480 patients with age information.
†
Diagnoses were made between October 1, 2003, and March 31, 2006.