Table 1.
Comparison of demographic and tumor characteristics by race/ethnicity
| Characteristics | NH-White | NH-Black | NH-API | Hispanic | AI/AN | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Age (years) | ||||||||||
| <45 | 425 | 4.0 | 30 | 3.3 | 37 | 5.5 | 49 | 5.9 | - | - |
| 45–54 | 1220 | 11.3 | 119 | 12.9 | 75 | 11.1 | 109 | 13.0 | - | - |
| 55–64 | 2330 | 21.7 | 266 | 28.9 | 138 | 20.4 | 194 | 23.2 | - | - |
| 65–74 | 3451 | 32.1 | 294 | 31.9 | 217 | 32.0 | 292 | 34.9 | - | - |
| 75–84 | 2581 | 24.0 | 175 | 19.0 | 169 | 24.9 | 151 | 18.1 | - | - |
| 85+ | 742 | 6.9 | 38 | 4.1 | 42 | 6.2 | 41 | 4.9 | - | - |
| Sex | ||||||||||
| Male | 5767 | 53.7 | 507 | 55.0 | 346 | 51.0 | 456 | 54.5 | 25 | 51.0 |
| Female | 4982 | 46.3 | 415 | 45.0 | 332 | 49.0 | 380 | 45.5 | 24 | 49.0 |
| Tumor stage | ||||||||||
| Localized* | 3645 | 33.9 | 212 | 23.0 | 249 | 36.7 | 239 | 28.6 | - | - |
| Regional | 2398 | 22.3 | 191 | 20.7 | 164 | 24.2 | 191 | 22.8 | - | - |
| Distant | 1659 | 15.4 | 193 | 20.9 | 115 | 17.0 | 135 | 16.1 | - | - |
| Localized/regional (Prostate) | 2238 | 20.8 | 246 | 26.7 | 127 | 18.7 | 219 | 26.2 | - | - |
| Unstaged/Missing | 809 | 7.5 | 80 | 8.7 | 23 | 3.4 | 52 | 6.2 | - | - |
| Health Insurance | ||||||||||
| Employer/Medicare/Private/government | 4604 | 42.8 | 343 | 34.2 | 329 | 48.5 | 373 | 44.6 | 24 | 49.0 |
| Medicaid/Not Insured | 469 | 4.4 | 66 | 7.2 | 43 | 6.3 | 108 | 12.9 | - | - |
| Unknown | 5676 | 52.8 | 513 | 55.6 | 306 | 45.1 | 355 | 42.5 | - | - |
| Years of Education | ||||||||||
| <12 | 2538 | 23.6 | 410 | 44.5 | 196 | 28.9 | 438 | 52.4 | 25 | 51.0 |
| 12 | 4050 | 37.7 | 263 | 28.5 | 250 | 36.9 | 239 | 28.6 | - | - |
| ≥13 | 4158 | 38.7 | 249 | 27.0 | 232 | 34.2 | 159 | 19.0 | - | - |
| Family income quintile | ||||||||||
| <$10,000 | 878 | 8.2 | 193 | 20.9 | 55 | 8.1 | 144 | 17.2 | 18 | 36.7 |
| $10,000–$34,999 | 3919 | 36.5 | 373 | 40.5 | 233 | 34.4 | 381 | 45.6 | - | - |
| ≥$35000 | 5365 | 49.9 | 302 | 32.8 | 363 | 53.5 | 270 | 32.3 | - | - |
| Unknown | 587 | 5.5 | 54 | 5.9 | 27 | 4.0 | 41 | 4.9 | - | - |
| Poverty status quintile | ||||||||||
| ≤100% | 618 | 5.7 | 162 | 17.6 | 58 | 8.6 | 152 | 18.2 | 17 | 34.7 |
| 100–400% | 4833 | 45.0 | 467 | 50.7 | 317 | 46.8 | 456 | 54.5 | 17 | 34.7 |
| ≥400% | 4297 | 40.0 | 211 | 22.9 | 286 | 42.2 | 168 | 20.1 | - | - |
| Unknown | 1001 | 9.3 | 82 | 8.9 | 17 | 2.5 | 60 | 7.2 | - | - |
| Total | 10749 | 100 | 922 | 100 | 678 | 100 | 836 | 100 | 49 | 100 |
NH-API: Non-Hispanic-Asian Pacific-Islanders; NH-Black: Non-Hispanic-Black; AI/AN: American-Indians/Alaska-Natives. To avoid any cell with N<16 (SEER data user agreement), government health insurance was combined with employer category for table-1 only, cases with missing information on education and cases <16 for AI/AN were not reported.
*
For prostate cancer, localized/regional stages were combined in SEER and were here reported in localized stage.