Table 5.
Patient characteristics associated with clinical disease stage ≥ II versus stage = I at the time of diagnosis based on the MDACC database results (2000–2011)
| Logistic regression analysis | |
|---|---|
| Patient characteristics | Odds ratio [95% confidence interval] |
| Age | |
| <40 | 0.30 [0.17, 0.53] |
| 40–59 | 0.57 [0.40, 0.80] |
| ≥60 | 1 (reference) |
| Sex | |
| Male | 1.61 [1.17, 2.22] |
| Female | 1 (reference) |
| Race | |
| African-American | 2.83 [1.81, 4.42] |
| Hispanic | 1.25 [0.78, 2.01] |
| Other | 0.64 [0.19, 2.22] |
| Caucasian | 1 (reference) |