Table 1.
Removed | Remained | Patients removed (compared to those who remained) were more likely to have these characteristics |
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Patients age <66 at diagnosis (8,630) | N= 22,614 | Married, non-white, less poor, invasive stage |
Patients for whom melanoma was not the first diagnosis of cancer (4,230) | N= 18,384 | Older (75+), male, married, less poor, white, in situ stage |
Patients without full coverage of Medicare Part A & Part B, during 12 months before diagnosis and 6 months after diagnosis (1,478) | N= 16,906 | Younger (66–74), male, poor, non-white |
Patients at HMO, during 12 months before diagnosis and 6 months after diagnosis (4,095) | N= 12,811 | Male, married, non-white |
Patients with in situ (4,652) or localized (4,765) or unknown (702) historic stage at diagnosis | N= 1,346 | Younger (66–74), unmarried, less poor |
Patients with unknown census tract poverty level (27) | N= 1,319 | Non-white |
Non-white patients (80) | N= 1,239 | Poor |
regional (1,032), & distant (207) |
HMO= health management organization