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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Nov 10;117(9):1966–1975. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25688

Table 1.

Characteristics of adult survivors of childhood cancer by race/ethnicity and insurance type

Insurance Entire Cohort n=8425 Black Non-Hispanic Survivors n=417 Hispanic Survivors n=477 White Non-Hispanic Survivors n=7531
Private n=6395 Public n=640 None n=1390 Private n=256 Public n=67 None n=94 Private n=296 Public n=72 None n=109 Private n=5843 Public n=501 None n=1187
Characteristics % % % % % % % % % % % %
Gendera b c d
 Male 52.4 40.2 59.8 51.6 34.3 57.4 48.3 37.5 57.8 52.7 41.3 60.2
 Female 47.6 59.8 40.2 48.4 65.7 42.6 51.7 62.5 42.2 47.3 58.7 39.8
Educationa b c d
 HS or less 23.8 63.4 47.8 33.5 56.7 50.0 35.5 65.2 54.8 22.8 64.1 47.0
 HS + some college 76.2 36.6 52.2 66.5 43.3 50.0 64.5 34.8 45.2 77.2 35.9 53.0
Household incomea b c d
 <$10,000 4.1 40.4 19.8 10.8 53.7 37.5 5.1 42.3 21 3.8 38.5 18.5
 $10,000–$19,999 9.6 26.7 27.3 18.6 20.4 25.0 14.9 28.8 27.2 9.0 27.2 27.4
 $20,000–$39,999 31.5 22.0 32.1 37.2 16.7 20.9 32.2 15.4 40.7 31.2 23.5 32.2
 $40,000–$59,999 25.2 7.3 12.7 21.6 7.4 9.7 23.9 7.7 7.4 25.4 7.2 13.3
 Over $60,000 29.6 3.6 8.1 11.8 1.8 6.9 23.9 5.8 3.7 30.6 3.6 8.6
Cancer diagnosisa c d
 Leukemia 29.0 26.2 34.9 25.0 22.4 22.3 38.5 31.9 44.9 28.7 25.9 35.1
 CNS 10.2 26.9 9.9 8.6 20.9 6.4 5.7 25.0 6.4 10.5 27.9 10.4
 HL 20.1 10.5 15.0 12.9 11.9 21.3 17.9 12.5 11.9 20.6 10.0 14.7
 NHL 9.3 5.8 11.1 11.7 4.5 5.3 9.5 6.9 9.2 9.2 5.8 11.7
 Kidney (Wilms) 6.3 5.3 7.1 12.9 10.4 10.6 4.7 4.2 9.2 6.1 4.8 6.7
 Neuroblastoma 3.9 3.8 4.0 3.5 3.0 4.3 4.1 2.8 0.9 3.9 4.0 4.3
 Soft tissue sarcoma 10.0 7.9 9.6 13.3 10.5 13.8 10.1 5.6 8.3 9.8 8.0 9.4
 Bone cancer 11.2 13.6 8.4 12.1 16.4 16.0 9.5 11.1 9.2 11.2 13.6 7.7
Age at interviewa c d
 18 – 24 36.2 39.5 49.5 45.7 29.9 40.5 39.9 47.2 56.0 35.6 39.7 49.6
 25 – 34 48.5 50.8 41.7 43.8 61.1 48.9 47.6 47.2 35.7 48.8 49.9 41.7
 35 + 15.3 9.7 8.8 10.5 9.0 10.6 12.5 5.6 8.3 15.6 10.4 8.7
Grade 3/4 conditiona c d
 Yes 26.5 40.9 22.9 23.0 32.8 29.8 26.4 37.5 15.6 26.7 42.5 23.0
 No 73.5 59.1 77.1 77.0 67.2 70.2 73.6 62.5 84.4 73.3 57.5 77.0

Abbreviations: HS or less, some high school or high school graduate; HS + some college, high school graduate with either some college courses or other training; CNS, central nervous system tumor; HL, Hodgkin lymphoma; NHL, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Note: Percentages are based upon the total with available data for each variable

a

P<.05 from test of equality across the three insurance categories among all survivors.

b

P<.05 from test of equality across the three insurance categories among Black survivors.

c

P<.05 from test of equality across the three insurance categories among Hispanic survivors.

d

P<.05 from test of equality across the three insurance categories among White survivors.