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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 25.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2011 Mar 31;117(20):4651–4658. doi: 10.1002/cncr.26103

Table 2.

Receipt of PLND by Age, Marital Status, Registry Location, and Grade, Stratified by Race/Ethnicity

Variables Total Black Hispanic White Asian P Value
Overall 31,262
(76.53)
3,362
(74.89)
2,576
(74.99)
24,102
(76.97)
1,222
(75.95)
0.002a

Age group

   <50 yrs 1,710
(74.51)
340
(73.59)
146
(70.53)
1,181
(75.51)
43
(69.35)
0.30
   50–59 yrs 10,635
(74.88)
1,249
(72.41)
735
(70.61)
8.312
(75.76)
339
(72.90)
<0.001b
   60–69 yrs 14,477
(76.95)
1,470
(76.01)
1,283
(76.37)
11,105
(77.08)
619
(78.16)
0.56
   70–70 yrs 4,334
(80.86)
298
(83.47)
408
(81.76)
3,409
(80.80)
219
(76.84)
0.18
   >80 yrs 106
(56.89)
5
(45.45)
4
(50.0)
95
(62.09)
2
(40.0)
0.49

Marital status

   Married 25,193
(76.68)
2,218
(74.03)
2,045
(74.66)
19,875
(77.30)
1,055
(75.04)
<0.001c
   Not married 6,069
(75.91)
1,144
(76.63)
531
(76.29)
4,227
(75.44)
167
(82.27)
0.13

PCa Differentiation

   Well 546
(69.91)
40
(58.82)
61
(66.3)
433
(72.53)
12
(50.0)
0.01d
   Moderately 24,212
(74.70)
2,580
(73.48)
1,963
(73.08)
18,805
(75.09)
864
(73.85)
0.03e
   Poorly 6,504
(84.95)
742
(81.54)
552
(84.02)
4,864
(85.72)
346
(83.37)
0.007f

Chi-square analysis. Data are presented as No. (%) unless otherwise specified. Pairwise comparisons performed for race/ethnicity and receipt of PLND.

a

Black versus White (p = 0.002); Hispanic versus White (p = 0.009); all other pairwise comparisons not significant.

b

Black versus White (p = 0.003); Hispanic versus White (p < 0.001); all other pairwise comparisons not significant.

c

Black versus White (p < 0.001); Hispanic versus White (p = 0.002); White versus Asian (p = 0.049); all other pairwise comparisons not significant.

d

Black versus White (p = 0.02); Asian versus White (p = 0.02); all other pairwise comparisons not significant.

e

Black versus White (p = 0.04); Hispanic versus White (p = 0.02); all other pairwise comparisons not significant.

f

Black versus White (p = 0.001); all other pairwise comparisons not significant.