Table 2.
Effect of patient, disease, and treatment characteristics on 5-year survival (n = 13734).
| Variable | Categories | Whites adjusted HR (95% CI)∗ |
Blacks adjusted HR (95% CI)∗ |
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| Sex | Male/female | 0.82 (0.77–0.88) | 1.10 (0.84–1.44) |
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| Age | Per year decrease | 0.81 (0.79–0.83) | 0.76 (0.68–0.83) |
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| Stage | Localized | 1.0 (ref.) | 1.0 (ref.) |
| Regional | 1.26 (1.13–1.39) | 0.98 (0.61–1.59) | |
| Distant | 1.21 (1.11–1.31) | 1.14 (0.77–1.67) | |
| Unknown | 1.11 (0.98–1.25) | 0.80 (0.44–1.45) | |
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| Cancer-directed surgery | No/yes | 0.65 (0.61–0.70) | 0.53 (0.38–0.73) |
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| Radiation | No/yes | 1.10 (1.01–1.20) | 1.24 (0.81–1.89) |
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| Therapy | None | 1.0 (ref.) | 1.0 (ref.) |
| Surgery only | 0.68 (0.64–0.73) | 0.53 (0.37–0.74) | |
| Radiation only | 1.27 (1.13–1.42) | 1.24 (0.75–2.04) | |
| Both surgery and radiation | 0.63 (0.55–0.71) | 0.65 (0.30–1.39) | |
∗Adjusted for the other variables in the table.