Table 4.

Changes in TNM Stage among White and API^* Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma,^† California, 1998–2005 (n = 1728)

TNM Stage	White (n = 991)		API (n = 737)
	1998–2003	2004–2005	1998–2003	2004–2005
	Stage I	60.3	53.8	55.7	51.7
Stage II	36.8	41.3	39.4	46.2
Stage III	3.0	4.9	4.9	2.1
P value for change over time	0.07		0.04

^*White denotes non-Hispanic white and API denotes Asian/Pacific Islander.

^†Only patients without nodal or distant metastasis and tumor size ≤ 5.0 cm were included in the analysis.