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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2013 May 15;32(6):1143–1152. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1263

Exhibit 3.

Bankruptcy Rates Per 1,000 Person-Years For Cancer Patients And Matched Group Without Cancer, Western Washington State, 1995–2009

Cancer type Age (years)
20–34 35–49 50–64 65–79 80–90
Cancer Control Cancer Control Cancer Control Cancer Control Cancer Control

Breast 13.95 3.23 7.98 3.03 4.95 2.27 2.12 0.96 1.29 0.48

Colorectal 11.71 1.96 9.27 2.24 5.55 2.10 2.90 0.87 1.13 0.61

Leuk/lymph 9.62 2.07 9.20 3.13 5.06 1.86 3.57 1.21 0.47 0.44

Lung 2.83 0.00 12.49 2.45 8.82 2.02 5.03 0.99 1.28 0.50

Melanoma 8.30 3.84 7.14 2.74 3.10 2.10 1.94 0.89 1.40 0.45

Prostate a a 6.49 2.52 3.47 1.71 2.44 0.87 0.65 0.82

Thyroid 11.37 3.92 9.05 2.06 6.01 2.91 4.05 1.83 0.00 0.00

Uterine 18.02 1.77 10.45 4.93 5.33 2.27 2.96 1.06 1.51 0.45

Other 9.53 3.33 9.19 2.46 6.45 2.04 2.88 1.03 0.62 0.58

All 10.06 3.15 8.55 2.75 5.01 2.04 2.76 0.98 0.94 0.57

SOURCE Authors’ analysis.

NOTES People in the group without cancer were matched to cancer patients by age, sex, and ZIP code of residence. The individual cancer types listed are those with the highest cumulative incidence of bankruptcy among all cancer types examined from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER). Leuk/lymph is leukemia/lymphoma.

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In our study, there were no instances of prostate cancer for men under the age of 35.