Table 3.
Patient Demographic and Clinical Characteristics by Cancer Type
| Characteristic | Total |
Breast Cancer |
Colorectal Cancer |
P* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
| Age at diagnosis, years | < .001 | ||||||
| Mean | 59.5 | 58.0 | 61.9 | ||||
| SD | 13.2 | 13.2 | 13.2 | ||||
| < 40 | 659 | 6.3 | 471 | 7.2 | 188 | 4.8 | |
| 40-49 | 1,838 | 17.6 | 1,341 | 20.4 | 497 | 12.8 | |
| 50-59 | 2,760 | 26.3 | 1,796 | 27.3 | 964 | 24.7 | |
| 60-69 | 2,732 | 26.1 | 1,681 | 25.6 | 1,051 | 27.0 | |
| ≥ 70 | 2,477 | 23.7 | 1,280 | 19.5 | 1,197 | 30.7 | |
| Female sex | 8,439 | 80.6 | 6,569 | 100.0 | 1,870 | 48.0 | |
| Disease stage | < .001 | ||||||
| I | 2,186 | 24.8 | 2,037 | 35.8 | 149 | 4.8 | |
| II | 3,031 | 34.5 | 2,323 | 40.8 | 708 | 22.8 | |
| III | 2,428 | 27.6 | 972 | 17.1 | 1,456 | 46.8 | |
| IV | 1,151 | 13.1 | 356 | 6.3 | 795 | 25.6 | |
| Received chemotherapy | 8,079 | 77.2 | 4,706 | 71.6 | 3,373 | 86.6 | < .001 |
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.
P value corresponds to differences between breast and colorectal cancers.