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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2004 Dec 1;101(11):2650–2659. doi: 10.1002/cncr.20671

TABLE 2.

Screening Rates at Baseline

% of patients

Characteristic African American
(n = 295)
Native American
(n = 371)
White
(n = 226)
All
(n = 892)
P valuea
Mammography
  Never 28 19 26 24 0.003 (African American vs. white 0.054; African American vs. Native American < 0.001)
  Within last 3 yrs 60 59 54 58
  > 3 yrs ago 13 22 21 19
Pap test
  Never 1 2 1 2 0.535
  Within last 3 yrs 83 81 79 81
  > 3 yrs ago 16 16 20 17
Clinical breast examination
  Never 6 9 8 8 0.589
  Within last yr 50 51 48 50
  > 1 yr ago 44 40 45 43

Pap: Papanicolaou.

a

P values from chi-square tests (two-sided) for overall race effect followed by pairwise comparisons between races. A significance level of 0.05 was used for the overall race comparisons. Bonferroni adjustments created a significance level of 0.05/3 = 0.0167 for each pairwise comparison.