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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015 Jul 28;153(1):191–200. doi: 10.1007/s10549-015-3518-9

Table 1.

Patient characteristics by race and ODX risk group

n (weighted proportion) ODX risk group
Mean (standard deviation) or %
Low (54.2 %)
Intermediate (37.5 %)
High (8.3 %)
Non-Black 195 (54.8 %) Black 93 (49.8 %) p Non-Black 131 (37.4 %) Black 69 (37.9 %) p Non-Black 29 (7.7 %) Black 24 (12.3 %) p
Tumor characteristics
    ODX recurrence score 11.2 (3.9) 11.3 (6.6) 0.85 22.3 (3.2) 23.5 (5.9) 0.04 41.6 (7.2) 39.6 (13.1) 0.42
    AJCC Stage 1 (v. 2) 68.3 66.5 0.79 62.5 67.8 0.47 77.9 51.6 0.08
    Tumor size category 0.64 0.60 0.16
        <2 cm 75.3 72.3 70.8 74.1 77.9 57.0
        2+ cm 24.7 27.7 29.2 25.9 22.1 43.0
    Combined grade 0.03 0.39 0.29
        1 42.3 26.3 23.1 32.2 * *
        2 53.2 65.2 57.8 54.2 * 25.8
        3 4.5 8.5 19.1 13.6 79.9 68.8
    PR positive 96.7 97.3 0.79 89.9 72.7 0.003 67.8 55.9 0.44
Treatment characteristics
    Chemo initiation 5.9 7.2 0.69 46.2 42.7 0.66 76.5 94.6 0.11
    ET initiation 92.4 93.1 0.84 97 94.4 0.41 92.6 84.9 0.42
    Radiation initiation 67.4 70.2 0.68 66.9 70.6 0.62 57 59.1 0.89
    Lumpectomy (v. mastectomy) 66.3 66.5 0.98 63.5 71.7 0.27 57 62.4 0.74
Clinical characteristics
    Age at diagnosis 57.4 (8.7) 54.4 (15.6) 0.002 56.4 (8.7) 55.8 (15.7) 0.66 57.7 (9.8) 55.4 (17.3) 0.22
    #Comorbidities 0.7 (0.8) 1.1 (1.5) <0.001 0.5 (0.6) 1.0 (1.4) <0.001 0.7 (1.0) 1.4 (1.2) 0.02
        Diabetes 7.4 20.7 0.003 7.7 20.3 0.01 * 40.9 0.01
        COPD * * 0.62 * * 0.56 * * 0.59
        Obesity 14 21.3 0.13 8.7 18.2 0.1 * 31.2 0.07
        Heart disease 4.8 * 0.19 * * 0.3 * * >0.99
        Hypertension 39.8 64.9 <0.001 31.1 59.4 <0.001 43.6 66.7 0.08
Socioeconomic factors
    Annual family income <0.001 <0.001 0.02
        <$15K 7.6 18.9 4.4 17.5 * *
        $15-30K 12.2 24.7 6.5 30.1 23.5 32.3
        $30-50K 18.1 23.4 16.3 26.9 19.5 *
        >$50K 62.0 33.0 72.8 25.5 57 37.6
    Insurance
        Private 80.7 69.3 0.05 85.7 66 0.01 67.8 77.6 0.47
        Medicaid 5.6 19.3 <0.001 4 19.3 <0.001 * 22.4 0.14
        Medicare 32.5 24.4 0.19 31 28.2 0.73 43 42.4 0.97
        Uninsured * 10.6 <0.001 3 9.4 0.07 * * 0.01
    Married 69.5 46.8 <0.001 82.2 43.7 <0.001 68.5 31.2 0.02
    Employed 49.8 51.3 0.81 53.7 43.7 0.19 41.6 40.9 0.96
    Education 0.008 0.1 0.81
        HS & Post-HS 47.8 48.1 46.9 59.8 51.7 48.4
        College+ 49.4 39.6 47.9 31.1 37.6 34.4
        <HS 2.8 12.2 5.3 9.1 * *
Year of diagnosis
0.16 0.30 0.80
    2008 6.1 13.6 15.4 9.1 23.5 *
    2009 19.2 20.2 20.3 17.5 * *
    2010 27.3 17.8 20.1 24.8 27.5 22.6
    2011 25.2 28.5 20.7 31.5 22.1 37.6
    2012/2013 22.2 19.9 23.5 17.1 * *
*

Data not reported for cell sizes <5

p value for weighted χ2 = 0.23. Because of small cell size, we combined women who were diagnosed in 2013 (n = 8) with 2012, and women who had tumor size >5 cm (n = 5) with 2-5 cm