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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2014 Jul 1;120(22):3569–3574. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28865

Table 1.

Supplement: Patient Descriptives

No RT PMRT
Variable N (%) N (%) p value
Year of Diagnosis 0.057
  2000–2002 525 (35.9) 331 (31.1)
  2003–2005 384 (26.3) 311 (29.3)
  2006–2008 387 (26.5) 293 (27.6)
  2009–2010 166 (11.4) 128 (12.0)
Registry <0.001
  Alaska Natives 1 (0.1) 1 (0.1)
  Atlanta 45 (3.1) 44 (4.1)
  California 313 (21.4) 207 (19.5)
  Connecticut 53 (3.6) 36 (3.4)
  Detroit 100 (6.8) 111 (10.4)
  Greater Georgia 121 (8.3) 82 (7.7)
  Hawaii 27 (1.8) 21 (2.0)
  Iowa 49 (3.4) 56 (5.3)
  Kentucky 63 (4.3) 43 (4.0)
  Los Angeles 188 (12.9) 79 (7.4)
  Louisiana 138 (9.4) 84 (7.9)
  New Jersey 189 (12.9) 100 (9.4)
  New Mexico 22 (1.5) 14 (1.3)
  Rural Georgia 3 (0.2) 4 (0.4)
  San Francisco-Oakland 55 (3.8) 61 (5.7)
  San Jose-Monterey 26 (1.8) 38 (3.6)
  Seattle 32 (2.2) 53 (5.0)
  Utah 37 (2.5) 29 (2.7)
Number of Nodes Examined 0.683
  0–5 304 (20.8) 207 (19.5)
  6–10 328 (22.4) 255 (24.0)
  11–50 819 (56.0) 595 (56.0)
  Unknown 11 (0.8) 6 (0.6)
At Least HS Education (quintiles) <0.001
  1 (Highest educated) 182 (12.4) 216 (20.3)
  2 235 (16.1) 195 (18.3)
  3 290 (19.8) 232 (21.8)
  4 395 (27.0) 231 (21.7)
  5 (Least educated) 360 (24.6) 189 (17.8)
Median Income (quintiles) 0.002
  1 (Lowest income) 387 (26.5) 260 (24.5)
  2 349 (23.9) 195 (18.3)
  3 263 (18.0) 212 (19.9)
  4 215 (14.7) 171 (16.1)
  5 (Highest income) 248 (17.0) 225 (21.2)

ER: Estrogen Receptor, PR: Progesterone Receptor, HS: High School