Table 1. Descriptive Statistics of Women <65 Years Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Who Received a Mastectomy (with and without Reconstruction), 2002-2006.
| Mast Only* (Count) | Mast Only (%) | Mast w/Rec* (Count) | Mast w/Rec (%) | |
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| Demographic Characteristics | (N = 26, 448) | (N = 19,017) | ||
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| Calendar year | ||||
| 2002 | 6,436 | 24.33 | 21.60 | 4,107 |
| 2003 | 5,432 | 20.54 | 18.86 | 3,586 |
| 2004 | 5,010 | 18.94 | 21.02 | 3,997 |
| 2005 | 4,928 | 18.63 | 19.89 | 3,782 |
| 2006 | 4,642 | 17.55 | 18.64 | 3,545 |
| Age Group | ||||
| 55 to <65 | 11,854 | 44.82 | 27.17 | 5,167 |
| 45 to <55 | 9,449 | 35.73 | 42.03 | 7,992 |
| <45 | 5,145 | 19.45 | 30.80 | 5,858 |
| Insurance Category | ||||
| Private | 18,170 | 71.84 | 91.14 | 16,895 |
| Public | 6,079 | 24.03 | 7.17 | 1,330 |
| Uninsured | 1,044 | 4.13 | 1.68 | 312 |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||
| White | 13,475 | 70.11 | 82.99 | 11,585 |
| Black | 2,923 | 15.21 | 8.78 | 1,226 |
| Hispanic | 1,975 | 10.28 | 5.65 | 788 |
| Asian | 848 | 4.41 | 2.58 | 360 |
| Any comorbidity | 12,382 | 49.86 | 59.14 | 10,783 |
| 12,453 | 50.14 | 40.86 | 7,450 | |
| Hospital Characteristics | ||||
| Teaching status of hospital | ||||
| Non-teaching | 1,793 | 15.34 | 2,687 | 33.12 |
| Teaching | 9,892 | 84.66 | 5,426 | 66.88 |
| Location (urban/rural) of hospital | ||||
| Rural | 6,182 | 52.91 | 299 | 3.69 |
| Urban | 5,503 | 47.09 | 7,814 | 96.31 |
| Region of hospital | ||||
| Northeast | 2,228 | 19.07 | 1,827 | 22.52 |
| Midwest | 2,411 | 20.63 | 1,779 | 21.93 |
| South | 4,425 | 37.87 | 3,110 | 38.33 |
| West | 2,621 | 22.43 | 1,397 | 17.22 |
| Bed size of hospital | ||||
| Small | 1,630 | 13.95 | 961 | 11.85 |
| Medium | 2,795 | 23.92 | 1,637 | 20.18 |
| Large | 7,260 | 62.13 | 5,515 | 67.98 |
*
Mast Only = mastectomy only; Mast w/Rec = mastectomy with reconstruction.
Source: Author's analysis of the NIS, 2002-2006