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Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2014 Nov 4;121(5):790–799. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29092

Table 4.

Use of BCS versus mastectomy in patients with non-metastatic disease < 5 cm.

Age<65 (N=3,511) Age 65+ (n=1,910)


Predictors OR 95% CI P-value OR 95% CI P-value
Age (per year) 1.01 1.00 –1.03 0.031 0.99 0.97–1.01 0.297
Race
  White (ref)
  Black 1.24 1.01–1.53 0.043 1.14 0.85–1.53 0.397
  Hispanic 1.21 0.83–1.76 0.336 1.34 0.72–2.47 0.356
  Other 0.83 060–1.14 0.253 0.66 0.38–1.16 0.147
Health Insurance
  Public (ref)
  Private 1.37 1.04–1.80 0.023 1.19 0.81–1.75 0.373
  Uninsured/NA 1.43 0.96–2.12 0.076 1.76 0.95–3.26 0.071
Census tract education
  Low (ref)
  High 1.20 0.93–1.54 0.154 1.54 1.09–2.16 0.013
Rural/Urban Residence
  Urban (ref)
  Urban Rural Mix 0.79 0.64–0.98 0.028 0.75 0.55–1.01 0.055
  Rural 0.72 0.53–0.96 0.028 0.68 0.46–1.00 0.048
Census tract poverty
  20% + (ref)
  < 20% 0.99 0.74–1.32 0.953 0.79 0.55–1.13 0.189
Comorbidity index score
  None (ref)
  Mild 0.99 0.80–1.22 0.921 0.86 0.63–1.18 0.343
  Moderate/Severe 1.36 0.99–1.88 0.060 1.11 0.74–1.66 0.631
CoC Surgery facility status
  No (ref)
  Yes 1.26 1.03–1.54 0.028 1.30 0.96–1.75 0.095
Tumor size (cm)1
  < 0.5 (ref)
  0.5–1 1.15 0.79–1.66 0.467 0.92 0.53–1.59 0.833
  1 – 1.9 0.92 0.66–1.29 0.643 0.52 0.31–0.87 0.012
  2 – 4.9 0.80 0.55–1.18 0.260 0.36 0.20–0.65 0.001
Lymph node status
   Negative (ref)
  Positive 0.70 0.56–0.88 0.002 0.53 0.38–0.74 0.002
Stage
  DCIS (ref)
  Stage I 0.90 0.67–1.22 0.508 0.71 0.45–1.11 0.132
  Stage II 0.49 0.34–0.71 0.002 0.59 0.34–1.02 0.057
  Stage IIIA 0.21 0.11–0.42 <0.001 0.14 0.04–0.47 0.002
1

Tumor size sample restricted to < 5 cm per algorithm in Figure 1.