Table 1.
Baseline characteristics between cases and non-cancer controls – Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
| Cancer Cases | Non- Cancer Controls |
p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Age (years) | 50.31 | 15.93 | 50.05 | 15.90 | 0.992 |
| BMI | 27.32 | 7.14 | 25.63 | 6.11 | 0.019 |
| N | % | N | % | ||
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| Education | < 0.001 | ||||
| At most 8th Grade | 34 | 26.56 | 70 | 13.75 | |
| High School Graduate | 69 | 53.91 | 271 | 53.24 | |
| Some Higher Education | 25 | 19.53 | 168 | 33.01 | |
| Family History | 0.047 | ||||
| Yes | 6 | 5.31 | 9 | 1.97 | |
| No | 107 | 94.69 | 448 | 98.03 | |
| Smoking (pack-years) | 0.357 | ||||
| 0 | 52 | 40.94 | 261 | 51.08 | |
| >0-31 | 25 | 19.69 | 85 | 16.63 | |
| 31-46 | 6 | 4.72 | 17 | 3.33 | |
| 46-64 | 5 | 3.94 | 15 | 2.94 | |
| >64 | 39 | 30.71 | 133 | 26.03 | |