Appendix Table I.

Estimates of hazard ratio (standard errors; s.e.) of race and cancer status from the Cox proportional hazard model by sex and selected ages. Model fitted to cancer patients and people without cancer from the non-cancer sample of Medicare beneficiaries residing in the SEER areas (1992–2005).

	Hazard ratios (s.e.)
	Females				Males
Age	66	70	80	90	66	70	80	90
No comorbidity/No Cancer/White (Reference)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Cancer	1.60	1.45	1.23	1.14	1.27	1.19	1.15	1.17
	(0.04)	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.04)
Black	1.33	1.20	0.97	0.84	1.51	1.40	1.09	0.80
	(0.04)	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.04)	(0.03)	(0.04)
Other races	0.92	0.85	0.83	0.81	1.03	0.87	0.82	0.86
	(0.05)	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.04)	(0.05)	(0.03)	(0.03)	(0.05)