Table 2.
Overall | Surgery | Chemotherapy | Radiation | Hormone Therapy | |||||||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||
Total | 107 | 22 | 93 | 54 | 35 | 86 | |||||
Patient Characteristics | |||||||||||
Age at diagnosis | P=0.19 | ||||||||||
<50 | 33 | 6 | 28.7 | 29 | 92.9 | 20 | 62.5 | 13 | 54.9 | 28 | 88.8 |
50–59 | 31 | 7 | 23.8 | 28 | 95.9 | 16 | 49.9 | 11 | 39.3 | 25 | 82.7 |
60–69 | 20 | 8 | 49.7 | 19 | 98.5 | 13 | 74.0 | 9 | 70.8 | 16 | 88.9 |
≥70 | 23 | 1 | 8.4 | 17 | 72.2 | 5 | 24.8 | 2 | 14.5 | 17 | 85.0 |
Race | P=0.03 | ||||||||||
White, NH | 56 | 15 | 34.2 | 51 | 94.5 | 31 | 56.0 | 23 | 54.5 | 45 | 86.0 |
Black, NH | 40 | 6 | 15.2 | 33 | 83.0 | 19 | 54.6 | 11 | 26.3 | 33 | 84.8 |
Hispanic | 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 8 | 94.1 | 3 | 52.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 93.8 |
Other | 2 | 1 | 50.4 | 1 | 50.4 | 1 | 50.4 | 1 | 50.4 | 1 | 100.0 |
Body mass index (kg/m2) | P=0.003 | ||||||||||
18.5–24.9 | 16 | 1 | 13.0 | 14 | 94.9 | 5 | 25.8 | 4 | 52.3 | 13 | 89.4 |
25–30 | 20 | 5 | 22.5 | 16 | 88.5 | 11 | 53.2 | 7 | 34.7 | 15 | 62.2 |
>30 | 41 | 12 | 47.2 | 38 | 96.8 | 24 | 69.1 | 18 | 59.6 | 36 | 95.1 |
Unknown | 30 | 4 | 13.6 | 25 | 86.3 | 14 | 53.1 | 6 | 30.5 | 22 | 91.0 |
Insurance | P=0.63 | ||||||||||
Private | 51 | 13 | 28.6 | 47 | 92.6 | 26 | 53.0 | 19 | 43.3 | 40 | 85.4 |
Medicare | 27 | 4 | 27.2 | 22 | 93.2 | 12 | 50.5 | 7 | 56.6 | 22 | 95.8 |
Medicaid | 22 | 3 | 16.6 | 17 | 82.3 | 10 | 53.9 | 6 | 28.9 | 18 | 69.9 |
None/Unknown | 7 | 2 | 49.2 | 7 | 100.0 | 6 | 83.8 | 3 | 55.5 | 6 | 93.7 |
Census-tract poverty | P=0.42 | ||||||||||
<20% below poverty | 74 | 17 | 29.9 | 67 | 93.9 | 37 | 53.8 | 26 | 47.1 | 57 | 84.2 |
≥20% below poverty | 32 | 5 | 22.8 | 25 | 83.7 | 16 | 62.4 | 9 | 41.7 | 28 | 94.5 |
Census-tract education | P=0.91 | ||||||||||
<25% w/o HS degree | 55 | 15 | 29.3 | 51 | 94.1 | 30 | 51.8 | 23 | 47.6 | 43 | 84.7 |
≥25% w/o HS degree | 51 | 7 | 27.7 | 41 | 88.1 | 23 | 62.1 | 12 | 43.0 | 42 | 88.9 |
Comorbidity index | P=0.85 | ||||||||||
None | 38 | 9 | 33.6 | 35 | 97.6 | 20 | 56.7 | 13 | 50.1 | 32 | 86.6 |
Mild | 43 | 8 | 23.8 | 37 | 87.4 | 24 | 58.6 | 12 | 36.5 | 32 | 86.1 |
Moderate | 19 | 4 | 33.4 | 17 | 96.2 | 8 | 51.8 | 9 | 64.9 | 15 | 82.3 |
Severe | 7 | 1 | 18.2 | 4 | 71.8 | 2 | 33.0 | 1 | 18.2 | 7 | 100.0 |
Physician Characteristics | |||||||||||
Time from graduation | |||||||||||
Surgeon | P=0.02 | ||||||||||
<15 years | 18 | 5 | 51.2 | 17 | 96.4 | 10 | 74.0 | 8 | 63.9 | 14 | 89.8 |
>15 years | 39 | 10 | 31.5 | 39 | 100.0 | 24 | 62.0 | 15 | 52.2 | 33 | 91.4 |
Unknown | 39 | 7 | 16.8 | 37 | 97.7 | 20 | 47.4 | 12 | 38.8 | 31 | 76.5 |
Radiation oncologist | P=0.37 | ||||||||||
<15 years | 16 | 8 | 60.1 | 16 | 100.0 | 11 | 72.2 | 12 | 86.0 | 15 | 100.0 |
>15 years | 32 | 10 | 38.1 | 30 | 96.4 | 23 | 74.6 | 16 | 56.8 | 28 | 89.7 |
Unknown | 17 | 4 | 33.0 | 17 | 100.0 | 11 | 65.7 | 7 | 64.0 | 15 | 94.0 |
Chemotherapy oncologist | P=0.72 | ||||||||||
<15 years | 15 | 3 | 31.3 | 11 | 83.1 | 8 | 73.9 | 4 | 36.5 | 15 | 100.0 |
>15 years | 58 | 15 | 36.4 | 53 | 95.8 | 35 | 64.6 | 23 | 53.8 | 46 | 87.8 |
Unknown | 19 | 4 | 24.8 | 19 | 100.0 | 11 | 56.6 | 7 | 54.7 | 16 | 89.7 |
Hospital Characteristics | |||||||||||
CoC Accredited | P=0.50 | ||||||||||
Yes | 57 | 14 | 32.6 | 51 | 91.4 | 33 | 57.6 | 22 | 49.2 | 46 | 89.8 |
No | 38 | 6 | 22.8 | 33 | 93.0 | 16 | 54.0 | 9 | 36.7 | 31 | 79.1 |
Teaching status | P=0.62 | ||||||||||
Teaching | 48 | 9 | 31.7 | 43 | 94.9 | 30 | 65.5 | 14 | 39.3 | 36 | 81.1 |
Non-teaching | 45 | 10 | 24.3 | 40 | 89.7 | 18 | 43.0 | 16 | 51.3 | 38 | 91.2 |
Size (number of beds) | P=0.02 | ||||||||||
<200 | 24 | 2 | 6.0 | 18 | 70.7 | 5 | 13.2 | 5 | 27.9 | 18 | 85.0 |
200–299 | 12 | 4 | 44.5 | 12 | 100.0 | 7 | 75.0 | 5 | 62.0 | 10 | 84.2 |
300–399 | 15 | 2 | 8.0 | 15 | 100.0 | 8 | 39.7 | 5 | 49.9 | 11 | 79.5 |
≥400 | 42 | 11 | 38.2 | 38 | 95.2 | 28 | 70.3 | 15 | 43.1 | 35 | 88.2 |
Abbreviations: CoC, Commission on Cancer; NH, non-Hispanic; NPCR POC-BP, National Program of Cancer Registries Breast and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care Study.
Percentages weighted to reflect the sampling design. Chemotherapy oncologist refers to the physician that determined the chemotherapy regimen; it was not a medical oncologist in all cases. Time from graduation refers to graduation from medical school. Calculation of chi-square test p-values excluded categories of unknown status. For race, p-value compares non-Hispanic White to all others.