Table 1. Characteristics of cancer survivors and individuals without a cancer history, n (weighted %).
| Ages 18–64 years | Ages ≥65 years | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer Survivors2 (n=2491) | Individuals without a Cancer History2 (n=55,972) | Cancer Survivors2 (n=2469) | Individuals without a Cancer History2 (n=8459) | |||||||
| p-value | p-value | |||||||||
| Age group (years) | <0.001 | |||||||||
| 18–44 | 677 | 24.5 | 34,347 | 59.8 | ||||||
| 45–49 | 296 | 11.3 | 6,391 | 11.2 | ||||||
| 50–54 | 405 | 16.3 | 6,104 | 11.5 | ||||||
| 55–59 | 507 | 21.1 | 5,136 | 9.6 | ||||||
| 60–64 | 606 | 26.8 | 3,994 | 7.9 | ||||||
| 65–69 | 598 | 23.4 | 2861 | 32.4 | <0.001 | |||||
| 70–74 | 533 | 21.9 | 1968 | 23.0 | ||||||
| 75–79 | 524 | 20.1 | 1524 | 18.3 | ||||||
| ≥80 | 814 | 34.6 | 2106 | 26.3 | ||||||
| Gender | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||||
| Male | 747 | 34.2 | 26,605 | 50.3 | 1,194 | 47.8 | 3483 | 41.8 | ||
| Female | 1,744 | 65.8 | 29,367 | 49.7 | 1,275 | 52.2 | 4976 | 58.2 | ||
| Education when first entered MEPSa | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||||
| Less than high school grad | 439 | 12.2 | 13,101 | 16.3 | 623 | 19.2 | 2724 | 23.9 | ||
| High school graduate | 780 | 30.0 | 17,026 | 29.1 | 798 | 34.7 | 2710 | 34.8 | ||
| Some college or more | 1,265 | 57.7 | 25,591 | 54.2 | 1,038 | 45.8 | 2959 | 40.8 | ||
| Race / ethnicity | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||||
| Non-Hispanic white only | 1,643 | 81.6 | 23,958 | 64.8 | 1,880 | 87.6 | 4877 | 76.5 | ||
| Non-Hispanic black only | 377 | 7.9 | 10,826 | 12.3 | 327 | 6.3 | 1573 | 9.4 | ||
| Hispanic | 348 | 6.8 | 15,751 | 15.7 | 154 | 3.6 | 1217 | 8.4 | ||
| Non-Hispanic other / multiple | 123 | 3.7 | 5,437 | 7.2 | 108 | 2.5 | 792 | 5.7 | ||
| Marital status | <0.001 | 0.820 | ||||||||
| Married | 1,400 | 61.1 | 28,684 | 52.9 | 1,328 | 54.5 | 4399 | 54.1 | ||
| Not married | 1,091 | 38.9 | 27,288 | 47.1 | 1,141 | 45.5 | 4060 | 45.9 | ||
| Health insurancea | <0.001 | |||||||||
| Aged <65 years, any private | 1,627 | 75.0 | 34,274 | 70.8 | ||||||
| Aged <65 years, public only | 544 | 14.8 | 7,931 | 10.1 | ||||||
| Aged <65 years, uninsured | 320 | 10.2 | 13,767 | 19.1 | ||||||
| Aged ≥65 years, Medicare only | 930 | 36.5 | 3213 | 38.6 | 0.002 | |||||
| Aged ≥65 years, Medicare and private | 1,220 | 54.0 | 3671 | 49.2 | ||||||
| Aged ≥65 years, Medicare and public | 296 | 8.5 | 1413 | 10.8 | ||||||
| Number of known MEPS priority conditions | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||||
| 0 | 642 | 26.5 | 30,375 | 52.8 | 139 | 5.9 | 739 | 8.3 | ||
| 1 | 598 | 25.3 | 12,788 | 23.8 | 327 | 13.5 | 1356 | 16.1 | ||
| 2 | 530 | 21.0 | 6,640 | 12.5 | 560 | 22.1 | 1939 | 23.9 | ||
| 3+ | 721 | 27.2 | 6,169 | 10.8 | 1,443 | 58.5 | 4425 | 51.7 | ||
a
Categories with missing data are not reported separately and will not add to 100%.
MEPS, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey