Table 2.
Comparison of cancer treatment given, recurrence, time to death and cause of death, by Indigenous status
| Indigenous N = 67 N (%) |
Non-Indigenous N = 62 N (%) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any Treatment Given | |||
| Treatment | 50 (75) | 59 (95) | |
| No Treatment | 15 (22) | 3 (5) | 0.005 |
| Not sure | 2 (3) | 0 | |
| Curative treatment given * | N = 59 | N = 53 | |
| Curative treatment | 28 (48) | 40 (76) | 0.002 |
| No curative treatment | 31 (52) | 13 (24) | |
| Mode of curative treatment * | |||
| Surgery only | 10(36) | 4 (10) | |
| Chemotherapy only | 1 (4) | 0 | |
| Radiotherapy only | 5 (18) | 4 (10) | 0.03 |
| Surgery and radiotherapy | 7 (25) | 16 (40) | |
| Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy | 0 | 4 (10) | |
| Chemoradiotherapy | 5 (18) | 12 (30) | |
| Recurrence | N = 67 | N = 62 | |
| Recurrence recorded | 13 (19) | 14 (23) | |
| No recurrence | 49 (73) | 45 (72) | 0.77 |
| Not enough information | 5 (8) | 3 (5) | |
| Time from diagnosis to death | |||
| Alive at 31st Dec 2006 | 14 (21) | 30 (48) | |
| Deceased in < 3 months | 14 (21) | 4 (7) | |
| Deceased 3 month to 12 months | 21 (31) | 10 (16) | 0.003 |
| Deceased 12 months to 2 years | 11 (17) | 8 (13) | |
| Deceased greater than 2 years | 7 (10) | 10 (16) | |
| Cause of death | N = 53 | N = 32 | |
| Cancer death | 44 (83) | 29 (91) | 0.33 |
| Non cancer death | 9 (17) | 3 (9) |
*Metastatic cases excluded