Table 2.
Baseline treatment characteristics of the racial/ethnic racial cohorts among the AJCC stages.
| NHW (28649) | Hispanics (1588) | Blacks (3062) | API (1815) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f | % | f | % | f | % | f | % | |
| AJCC stage I | ||||||||
| Radiation (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Radiation not received | 23652 | 82.6 | 1385 | 87.2* | 2450 | 80.8* | 1601 | 88.2* |
| Radiation received | 4666 | 16.3 | 194 | 12.2* | 578 | 18.9* | 200 | 11 |
| Unknown | 331 | 1.2 | 9 | 0.6* | 34 | 1.1 | 14 | 0.8 |
| Cancer directed surgery (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Not performed | 6961 | 24.3 | 389 | 24.5 | 1033 | 33.7* | 354 | 19.5* |
| Performed | 21582 | 75.6 | 1197 | 75.4 | 2012 | 65.7* | 1459 | 80.4* |
| Reason for no surgery (P < 0.05)a | ||||||||
| Died | 21 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| Not recommended | 6014 | 86.3 | 328 | 84.3 | 873 | 84.5 | 294 | 83.1 |
| Patient refusal | 450 | 6.4 | 28 | 7.1 | 81 | 7.8 | 41 | 11.6* |
| Unknown | 582 | 8.4 | 34 | 8.7 | 93 | 9 | 21 | 5.9 |
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| NHW (21121) | Hispanics (1345) | Blacks (3150) | API (1481) | |||||
| f | % | f | % | f | % | f | % | |
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| AJCC stage II | ||||||||
| Radiation (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Radiation not received | 13590 | 64.3 | 941 | 70.0* | 1954 | 62.0* | 1075 | 72.6* |
| Radiation received | 7159 | 33.9 | 384 | 28.6* | 1144 | 36.3* | 392 | 26.5* |
| Unknown | 372 | 1.8 | 20 | 1.5 | 52 | 1.7 | 14 | 0.9* |
| Cancer directed surgery (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Not performed | 11083 | 52.7 | 743 | 55.3 | 2038 | 64.9* | 818 | 55.3* |
| Performed | 9937 | 47.3 | 601 | 44.7 | 1101 | 35.1* | 661 | 44.7* |
| Reason for no surgery (P < 0.05)a | ||||||||
| Died | 37 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.7 | 8 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.2 |
| Not recommended | 10089 | 91 | 672 | 90.4 | 1826 | 89.6* | 760 | 92.9* |
| Patient refusal | 308 | 3.1 | 21 | 2.8 | 56 | 2.7 | 28 | 3.4 |
| Unknown | 750 | 6.7 | 46 | 6.1 | 159 | 7.8 | 30 | 3.7* |
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| NHW (26949) | Hispanics (1798) | Blacks (4610) | API (1983) | |||||
| f | % | f | % | f | % | f | % | |
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| AJCC stage III | ||||||||
| Radiation (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Radiation not received | 11542 | 42.8 | 908 | 50.5* | 1885 | 40.9* | 955 | 48.2* |
| Radiation received | 14909 | 55.3 | 867 | 48.2* | 2641 | 57.3* | 1002 | 50.5* |
| Unknown | 498 | 1.8 | 23 | 1.3 | 84 | 1.8 | 26 | 1.3* |
| Cancer directed surgery (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Not performed | 22228 | 83 | 1448 | 80.6* | 4037 | 88.0* | 1577 | 79.6* |
| Performed | 4562 | 17 | 349 | 19.4* | 548 | 12.0* | 403 | 20.4* |
| Reason for no surgery (P < 0.01)a | ||||||||
| Died | 52 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 |
| Not recommended | 20685 | 93.1 | 1353 | 93.4 | 3713 | 92.0* | 1504 | 95.4* |
| Patient refusal | 353 | 1.6 | 20 | 1.4 | 53 | 1.3 | 21 | 1.3 |
| Unknown | 1297 | 5.8 | 75 | 5.2 | 287 | 7.1* | 53 | 3.7* |
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| NHW (68745) | Hispanics (5619) | Blacks (11703) | API (6246) | |||||
| f | % | f | % | f | % | f | % | |
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| AJCC stage IV | ||||||||
| Radiation (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Radiation not received | 37450 | 54.5 | 3356 | 59.7* | 6285 | 53.7 | 3628 | 58.1* |
| Radiation received | 30306 | 44.1 | 2195 | 39.1* | 5259 | 44.9 | 2562 | 41.0* |
| Unknown | 989 | 1.4 | 68 | 1.2 | 159 | 1.4 | 56 | 0.9* |
| Cancer directed surgery (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
| Not performed | 65265 | 95.5 | 5399 | 96.2* | 11233 | 96.5* | 6014 | 96.4* |
| Performed | 3107 | 4.5 | 213 | 3.8* | 410 | 3.5* | 222 | 3.6* |
| Reason for no surgery (P < 0.01)a | ||||||||
| Died | 141 | 0.2 | 14 | 0.3 | 28 | 0.3 | 14 | 0.2 |
| Not recommended | 61220 | 93.8 | 5112 | 94.7* | 10331 | 92* | 5796 | 96.3* |
| Patient refusal | 766 | 1.2 | 41 | 0.8* | 138 | 1.2 | 58 | 0.9 |
| Unknown | 3511 | 5.4 | 239 | 4.4* | 796 | 7.1* | 156 | 2.6* |
* P < 0.05 using Z test when c/w NHW; aFisher's exact test was used to test difference among the races.
f: frequency; P: P value; %, percentage; API: Asian Pacific Islanders; NHW: non-Hispanic whites.