Table 1.

Demographic and Tumor Characteristics by Race/Ethnicity and Birthplace

		APIs
	NHW (N=10099) %	US-born (N=1944) %	Foreign-born (N=3253) %	Unknown birthplace N=(1257) %
Demographic Characteristics
Sex*
Male	65	63	56	59
Female	35	37	44	41
Age at diagnosis (mean ± sd)*	71 ±13	72 ±12	66 ±15	69 +14
Marital status*
Married	59	64	69	67
Not married	41	36	31	33
Registry*
Los Angeles	37	14	49	37
Seattle/Puget Sound	23	3	8	5
San Francisco/Oakland	20	5	19	33
San Jose/Monterey	10	3	11	13
Atlanta	7	<1	2	2
Hawaii	3	75	11	10
Tumor Characteristics
Location of tumor*
Cardia and fundus (upper 1/3)	42	16	12	13
Body (middle 1/3)	7	12	9	10
Antrum and Pylorus (lower 1/3)	19	30	37	38
Overlapping region	8	13	10	8
Stomach, lesser, greater curv. NOS†	24	29	32	31
Stage at diagnosis*
Local	20	23	22	31
Regional	32	36	37	33
Distant	36	33	31	24
Unstaged	12	8	10	12
Histology*
Adenocarcinoma	82	87	77	80
Signet ring cell	18	13	23	20
Tumor grade*
Well differentiated	3	4	3	5
Moderately differentiated	24	25	22	25
Poorly differentiated	58	61	63	59
Undifferentiated	2	1	2	1
Undetermined	13	9	10	10

^*p<0.001

^†Not otherwise specified (NOS)