Table 1.

Selected characteristics of endometrial cancer cases and controls, SEER-Medicare (1993–2007).

	Controls N = 100,751		Cases N = 16,323
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age in years	77	6.0	76	5.7
Race/Ethnicity	n	%	n	%
White	87,845	87.2	14,750	90.4
Black	6,500	6.5	978	6.0
Hispanic	1,538	1.5	159	1.0
Asian	2,580	2.6	206	1.3
Other/unknown	2,288	2.3	230	1.4
Registry at diagnosis
San Francisco	4,321	4.3	832	5.1
Connecticut	8,499	8.4	1,665	10.2
Detroit	9,592	9.5	1,756	10.8
Hawaii	1,281	1.3	169	1.0
Iowa	9,437	9.4	1,893	11.6
New Mexico	3,086	3.1	441	2.7
Seattle	6,355	6.3	1,304	8.0
Utah	2,990	3.0	563	3.4
Atlanta	4,100	4.1	549	3.4
San Jose	2,739	2.7	494	3.0
Los Angeles	7,509	7.5	1,522	9.3
Rural Georgia	342	0.3	32	0.2
Greater California	12,659	12.6	1,654	10.1
Kentucky	7,338	7.3	770	4.7
Louisiana	5,548	5.5	541	3.3
New Jersey	14,955	14.8	2,138	13.1
Tobacco use
No	97,926	97.2	15,982	97.9
Yes	2,825	2.8	341	2.1
Charlson comorbidity score
Low (0–2)	92,012	91.3	15,192	93.1
Moderate (3–5)	7,879	7.8	1,037	6.4
Severe (6+)	860	0.9	94	0.6

SD = standard deviation