Table 2. Patient characteristics.

		Asian	Black	White	Total
Gender	Female	35	87	102	224
	Male	47	59	91	197
	unknown	1	3	2	6
		83	149	195	427
Age (mean)	Female	62 (33-87)	62 (30-90)	68 (36-90)	65 (30-90)
	Male	64 (43-84)	62 (26-87)	66 (22-91)	64 (22-91)
Stage	Stage-I	11 (13%)	3 (2%)		14 (3%)
	Stage-II	28 (34)	26 (17%)	21 (11%)	75 (18%)
	Stage-III	36 (43%)	87 (58%)	113 (58%)	236 (55%)
	Stage-IV	4 (5%)	19 (13%)	38 (19%)	60 (14%)
	unknown	4 (5%)	15 (10%)	23 (12%)	42 (10%)
Location	distal	33 (39%)	37 (25%)	41 (21%)	111 (26%)
	proximal	22 (27%)	67 (45%)	119 (61%)	208 (49%)
	rectal	25 (30%)	25 (17%)	19 (10%)	69 (16%)
	unspecified	3 (4%)	20 (13%)	16 (8%)	39 (9%)