Table 1.

Characteristics of Asian/Pacific Islander and white colorectal cancer survivors (N =9,737), USA, 1996–2000

Characteristic	White (n =9,065)		All API (n =672)		P valuea	Chinese (n =186)		Japanese (n =267)		Other API (n =219)		P valuea
	No.(%)		No.(%)			No.(%)		No.(%)		No.(%)
Age at CRC diagnosis (years)
Mean	74.3		72.9		<0.0001	74.3		72.9		71.8		0.0009
SD	6.7		6.5			7.0		6.1		6.5
Sex
Female	5,231	57.7	339	50.5	0.0002	97	52.2	142	53.2	100	45.7	0.2207
Male	3,834	42.3	333	49.6		89	47.9	125	46.8	119	54.3
Stage
I	3,967	43.8	280	41.7	0.017	0 71	38.2	124	46.4	85	38.8	0.0692
II	3,337	36.8	231	34.4		61	32.8	82	30.7	88	40.2
III/IV	1,761	19.4	161	24.0		54	29.0	61	22.9	46	21.0
Comorbidity indexb
Mean	0.5		0.6		0.0007	0.6		0.5		0.7		0.2036
SD	0.8		0.9			1.0		0.8		1.0
0	5,928	65.4	393	58.5	0.0009	116	62.4	158	59.2	119	54.3	0.0494
1	2,036	22.5	169	25.2		40	21.5	76	28.5	53	24.2
≥2	886	9.8	85	12.7		26	14.0	22	8.2	37	16.9
SEER registry site
Hawaii	49	0.5	217	32.3	<0.0001	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	<0.0001
Seattle-Puget Sound	907	10.0	37	5.5		–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d
Los Angeles	792	8.7	205	30.5		–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d
San Francisco-Oakland	421	4.6	96	14.3		–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d
San Jose-Monterey	326	3.6	58	8.6		–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d
Greater California	524	5.8	32	4.8		–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d
Other SEER registry sitec	6,046	66.7	27	4.0		–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d
Number of Prior Cancer Diagnoses (primary sites)
0	7,733	85.3	609	90.6	0.0001	164	88.2	241	90.3	204	93.2	0.2228
1 or more	1,332	14.7	63	9.4		22	11.8	26	9.7	15	6.9
Year of Diagnosis
1996	1,273	14.0	110	16.4	<0.0001	35	18.8	42	15.7	33	15.1	0.2912
1997	1,383	15.3	125	18.6		36	19.4	53	19.9	36	16.4
1998	1,561	17.2	123	18.3		30	16.1	42	15.7	51	23.3
1999	1,553	17.1	140	20.8		40	21.5	63	23.6	37	16.9
2000	3,295	36.4	174	25.9		45	24.2	67	25.1	62	28.3
Poverty level (% tract residents below federal poverty level)b
0–3.90 %	2,093	23.1	105	15.6	<0.0001	34	18.3	37	13.9	34	15.5	0.4066
3.91–6.76 %	2,063	22.8	135	20.1		38	20.4	61	22.9	36	16.4
6.77–11.67 %	2,059	22.7	135	20.1		32	17.2	60	22.5	43	19.6
≥11.68 %	1,936	21.4	267	39.7		72	38.7	97	36.3	98	44.8

API Asian/Pacific Islander

^aP values compare all API survivors to white CRC survivors and API subgroup survivors to one another, respectively

^bPercentages for comorbidity and poverty level do not total 100 % due to suppression of the unknown category

^cOther SEER registries include Detroit, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah, Atlanta, Rural Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and New Jersey

^dConsidering that at least one cell count was less than 11, all data for API subgroups have been suppressed