Table 2. Patient Characteristics by Race.

	Overall	Black (n=23)	White (n=259)	p†
Characteristic	n	%‡	%‡
Age at Diagnosis				0.55
<65	107	43.5	37.1
≥65	175	56.5	62.9
Sex				0.22
Male	157	43.5	56.0
Female	125	56.5	44.0
Location				0.27
Left	128	35.1	46.3
Right	115	56.5	39.4
Rectal	39	8.7	14.3
Differentiation				0.49
Poor/unknown	45	13.0	16.2
Moderate	217	74.0	77.2
Well	20	13.0	6.6
T Stage				0.26
T1/T2	117	30.5	42.5
T3/T4	165	69.5	57.5
Lymphovascular Invasion				0.35
No	224	87.0	79.5
Yes	58	13.0	20.5
Treatment				0.69
Surgery alone	218	73.9	77.7
Surgery + chemotherapy	64	26.1	22.3
Nodes Harvested				0.69
<13	59	17.4	20.9
≥13	223	82.6	79.1

^†P value from chi-square test of association.

^‡% of total for race.