Table 2.

Logistic regression analysis of factors associated with advanced stage at diagnosis, NSW Cancer Registry 2000–2008

	Distant			Distant/regional
	Unadjusted	Model 1	Model 2	Unadjusted	Model 1	Model 2
	OR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)a	AOR (95% CI)b	OR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)a	AOR (95% CI)b
Aboriginal status
Non-Aboriginal	1	1	1	1	1	1
Aboriginal	1.46 (1.33–1.61)	1.59 (1.45–1.75)	1.30 (1.17–1.44)	1.46 (1.34–1.58)	1.47 (1.36–1.60)	1.29 (1.18–1.40)
Sex
Female	1	1	1	1	1	1
Male	0.91 (0.89–0.93)	0.88 (0.86–0.90)	0.91 (0.89–0.93)	0.66 (0.65–0.67)	0.65 (0.64–0.66)	0.96 (0.94–0.98)
Residential remoteness
Major cities	1	1	1	1	1	1
Inner regional	0.94 (0.92–0.96)	0.87 (0.85–0.89)	0.91 (0.88–0.94)	0.92 (0.90–0.93)	0.89 (0.87–0.90)	0.92 (0.90–0.94)
Outer regional	1.00 (0.97–1.04)	0.90 (0.86–0.93)	0.94 (0.89–0.98)	0.96 (0.94–0.99)	0.91 (0.88–0.94)	0.95 (0.92–0.98)
Remote/ Very remote	1.19 (1.05–1.36)	1.02 (0.89–1.16)	0.97 (0.84–1.12)	1.09 (0.98–1.20)	0.98 (0.88–1.09)	0.97 (0.87–1.09)
SEIFA quintile
1 (least disadvantaged)	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	1.17 (1.13–1.21)	1.21 (1.17–1.25)	1.10 (1.06–1.14)	1.07 (1.04–1.10)	1.10 (1.07–1.12)	1.02 (0.99–1.05)
3	1.17 (1.14–1.21)	1.22 (1.18–1.26)	1.07 (1.03–1.11)	1.05 (1.03–1.08)	1.10 (1.07–1.12)	1.00 (0.97–1.03)
4	1.17 (1.13–1.21)	1.23 (1.19–1.27)	1.07 (1.03–1.11)	1.05 (1.02–1.07)	1.11 (1.08–1.13)	1.01 (0.98–1.03)
5 (most disadvantaged)	1.32 (1.28–1.36)	1.40 (1.35–1.45)	1.17 (1.13–1.22)	1.15 (1.12–1.18)	1.21 (1.18–1.24)	1.05 (1.02–1.08)

AOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval, OR odds ratio, SEIFA socio-economic index for areas (Index of relative socio-economic disadvantage was used in this study).

^aModel 1 adjusted for age, sex, year of diagnosis, remoteness and SEIFA.

^bModel 2 further adjusted for cancer site.