Table 3.
Treatment strategy for different racial groups, stratified by stage at diagnosis and histologic type.
| Non- Hispanic white (n=2,015) |
Hispanic white (n=142) |
Black (n=362) |
Asian (n=1,376) |
Other (n=167) |
P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage at diagnosis | |||||||
| Localized | No treatment | 4 (1.1) | 2 (7.7) | 1 (2.1) | 3 (1.6) | 2 (15.4) | <0.001 |
| Surgery | 49 (13.4) | 4 (15.4) | 9 (19.1) | 1 (0.5) | 2 (15.4) | ||
| Radiation | 224 (61.2) | 15 (57.7) | 33 (70.2) | 165 (85.9) | 8 (61.5) | ||
| Radiation & Surgery | 89 (24.3) | 5 (19.2) | 4 (8.5) | 23 (12.0) | 1 (7.7) | ||
| Regional | No treatment | 50 (4.0) | 3 (3.1) | 14 (6.0) | 18 (1.8) | 4 (3.5) | <0.001 |
| Surgery | 64 (5.1) | 4 (4.2) | 13 (5.5) | 15 (1.5) | 2 (1.8) | ||
| Radiation | 853 (68.2) | 63 (65.6) | 150 (63.8) | 860 (86.0) | 92 (81.4) | ||
| Radiation & Surgery | 283 (22.6) | 26 (27.1) | 58 (24.7) | 107 (10.7) | 15 (13.3) | ||
| Distant | No treatment | 29 (7.4) | 0 | 6 (7.7) | 3 (1.6) | 3 (7.3) | <0.001 |
| Surgery | 35 (8.9) | 4 (20.0) | 3 (3.8) | 6 (3.3) | 1 (2.4) | ||
| Radiation | 253 (64.4) | 11 (55.0) | 61 (78.2) | 154 (83.7) | 33 (80.5) | ||
| Radiation & Surgery | 76 (19.3) | 5 (25.0) | 8 (10.3) | 21 (11.4) | 4 (9.8) | ||
| Histologic type | |||||||
| Keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma | No treatment | 70 (4.9) | 4 (4.7) | 21 (9.7) | 14 (2.6) | 6 (8.7) | <0.001 |
| Surgery | 104 (7.2) | 6 (7.1) | 12 (5.6) | 8 (1.5) | 1 (1.4) | ||
| Radiation | 978 (68.1) | 60 (70.6) | 142 (65.7) | 443 (83.1) | 53 (76.8) | ||
| Radiation & Surgery | 285 (19.8) | 15 (17.6) | 41 (19.0) | 68 (12.8) | 9 (13.0) | ||
| Differentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma | No treatment | 9 (4.4) | 2 (8.3) | 0 (0) | 12 (3.7) | 3 (6.8) | <0.001 |
| Surgery | 10 (4.9) | 1 (4.2) | 0 (0) | 6 (1.8) | 2 (4.5) | ||
| Radiation | 138 (67.3) | 15 (62.5) | 40 (74.1) | 275 (83.8) | 35 (79.5) | ||
| Radiation & Surgery | 48 (23.4) | 6 (25.0) | 14 (25.9) | 35 (10.7) | 4 (9.1) | ||
| Undifferentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma | No treatment | 19 (4.9) | 1 (3.0) | 4 (4.1) | 22 (4.0) | 3 (4.3) | <0.001 |
| Surgery | 13 (3.3) | 1 (3.0) | 2 (2.1) | 6 (1.1) | 1 (1.4) | ||
| Radiation | 252 (64.8) | 18 (54.5) | 62 (63.9) | 435 (79.7) | 53 (76.8) | ||
| Radiation & Surgery | 105 (27.0) | 13 (39.4) | 29 (29.9) | 83 (15.2) | 12 (17.4) | ||
| Others | No treatment | 80 (11.6) | 4 (6.7) | 16 (12.2) | 29 (5.9) | 4 (9.1) | <0.001 |
| Surgery | 84 (12.2) | 7 (11.7) | 17 (13.0) | 10 (2.0) | 2 (4.5) | ||
| Radiation | 358 (51.8) | 35 (58.3) | 70 (53.4) | 389 (78.7) | 32 (72.7) | ||
| Radiation & Surgery | 169 (24.5) | 14 (23.3) | 28 (21.4) | 66 (13.4) | 6 (13.6) |
Cancers diagnosed in the period of 1973–2009 in the SEER 9 database. In each cell, count (percentage). P-values were generated from multivariate logistic regression.