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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2011 Jan 24;117(14):3242–3251. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25854

Table 5.

Hazard ratios of mortality by race/ethnicity among patients with invasive tumors

Attributes Hazard ratio (95% CI) of All-Cause Mortality
Hazard ratio (95% CI) of Cancer-Specific Mortality
No. Model-1 No. Model-2 Model-1 Model-2
Race/ethnicity
 NH-White 10749 1.0(Referent) 5073 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent)
 NH-Black 922 0.9(0.9–1.0) 409 1.0(0.9–1.1) 1.0(0.9–1.1) 1.0(0.9–1.2)
 NH-API 678 0.8(0.7–0.9) 372 0.8(0.7–1.0) 0.8(0.6–0.9) 0.7(0.6–1.0)
 Hispanic 836 0.8(0.7–0.9) 481 0.8(0.7–1.0) 0.8(0.7–1.0) 0.8(0.6–1.0)
 AI/AN 49 1.5(1.0–2.3) 32 1.5(0.8–2.5) 1.9(1.1–3.1) 1.7(1.0–3.2)
Health Insurance
 Employer/Medicare/Private - - 5595 1.0(Referent) - 1.0(Referent)
 Government - - 78 1.5(1.1–2.1) - 1.6(1.1–2.3)
 Medicaid/Not-insured - - 694 1.4(1.2–1.5) - 1.3(1.1–1.4)
Years of Education
 <12 3607 1.3(1.2–1.4) 1605 1.2(1.1–1.4) 1.4(1.3–1.5) 1.3(1.1–1.4)
 12 4814 1.2(1.1–1.2) 2306 1.1(1.0–1.2) 1.2(1.1–1.3) 1.2(1.1–1.3)
 ≥13 4810 1.0(Referent) 2456 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent)
Annual Family Income
 <$10,000 1288 1.3(1.2–1.5) 646 1.3(1.1–1.6) 1.2(1.1–1.4) 1.2(1.0–1.5)
 $10,000–$34,999 4921 1.2(1.1–1.3) 2404 1.2(1.0–1.3) 1.1(1.0–1.2) 1.1(1.0–1.3)
 ≥$35,000 6314 1.0(Referent) 3024 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent)
 Unknown 711 1.1(1.0–1.2) 293 0.2(0.0–2.2) 1.0(0.9–1.2) 0.3(0.0–2.5)
Family poverty status(1990 threshold)
 ≤100% 1007 1.0(0.9–1.2) 473 0.9(0.7–1.1) 1.0(0.8–1.2) 0.9(0.7–1.1)
 100–400% 6090 1.0(1.0–1.1) 1248 1.0(0.9–1.2) 1.1(1.0–1.2) 1.1(0.9–1.2)
 ≥400% 5982 1.0(Referent) 1721 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent)
 Unknown 155 1.1(1.0–1.2) 2925 4.9(0.5–43.7) 1.0(0.9–1.2) 3.8(0.4–34.5)
Surgery(cancer-directed)
 Yes 7261 1.0(Referent) 3415 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent)
 No 5973 2.2(2.1–2.3) 2952 2.4(2.2–2.6) 2.6(2.4–2.8) 2.8(2.5–3.1)
Radiotherapy
 Yes 3761 1.0(Referent) 1854 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent) 1.0(Referent)
 No 9473 1.1(1.0–1.1) 4513 1.1(1.0–1.2) 1.0(0.9–1.1) 1.0(0.9–1.1)
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Model-1: Hazard ratio adjusted for age, sex, tumor stage, education, poverty, family income, surgery, and radiotherapy. Model-2: Additionally adjusted for health insurance in cases with this data, in addition to above variables.