Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women with invasive breast cancer in the California Cancer Registry, 2004–2014 (N=129,488)
| NHW | Hispanic | |||
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| n | % | n | % | |
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| 99862 | 29626 | |||
| Age, years | ||||
| 20–39 | 3808 | 3.8 | 3018 | 10.2 |
| 40–49 | 15403 | 15.4 | 7641 | 25.8 |
| 50–59 | 24600 | 24.6 | 7965 | 26.9 |
| 60–69 | 26926 | 27.0 | 6078 | 20.5 |
| 70+ | 29125 | 29.2 | 4924 | 16.6 |
| Mean (SD) | 61.9 (13.3) | 55.7 (13.4) | ||
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| Nativity | ||||
| US-Born | – | – | 13890 | 46.9 |
| Foreign-Born | – | – | 15736 | 53.1 |
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| Neighborhood SES* | ||||
| 1 (Lowest) | 6872 | 6.9 | 8265 | 27.9 |
| 2 | 14178 | 14.2 | 7343 | 24.8 |
| 3 | 20103 | 20.1 | 6042 | 20.4 |
| 4 | 25947 | 26.0 | 4763 | 16.1 |
| 5 (Highest) | 32762 | 32.8 | 3213 | 10.8 |
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| Marital Status at Diagnosis | ||||
| Married | 58071 | 58.2 | 17378 | 58.7 |
| Never Married | 14194 | 14.2 | 5594 | 18.9 |
| Previously Married | 27597 | 27.6 | 6654 | 22.5 |
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| Insurance Status | ||||
| No Insurance | 15720 | 15.7 | 5871 | 19.8 |
| Private | 49746 | 49.8 | 12616 | 42.6 |
| Medicare or Medicare+Private | 17429 | 17.5 | 2025 | 6.8 |
| Public/Medicaid/Military | 16967 | 17.0 | 9114 | 30.8 |
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| AJCC Stage | ||||
| I | 51075 | 51.1 | 11782 | 39.8 |
| II | 33346 | 33.4 | 11481 | 38.8 |
| III | 11307 | 11.3 | 4889 | 16.5 |
| IV | 4134 | 4.1 | 1474 | 5.0 |
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| Tumor Size (cm) | ||||
| 0.1 to ≤0.5 | 6628 | 6.6 | 1548 | 5.2 |
| 0.5 to ≤ 1.0 | 17810 | 17.8 | 3738 | 12.6 |
| 1.0 to ≤ 2.0 | 36445 | 36.5 | 9697 | 32.7 |
| 2.0 to ≤ 5.0 | 29978 | 30.0 | 11067 | 37.4 |
| >5.0 | 6989 | 7.0 | 2839 | 9.6 |
| Microinvasion | 577 | 0.6 | 182 | 0.6 |
| Diffused | 430 | 0.4 | 202 | 0.7 |
| Unknown | 1005 | 1.0 | 353 | 1.2 |
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| Lymph node involvement | ||||
| Negative | 67820 | 67.9 | 17264 | 58.3 |
| Positive | 31496 | 31.5 | 12181 | 41.1 |
| Unknown | 546 | 0.5 | 181 | 0.6 |
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| Grade | ||||
| Grade I | 25311 | 25.3 | 5218 | 17.6 |
| Grade II | 42669 | 42.7 | 11721 | 39.6 |
| Grade III/IV | 28348 | 28.4 | 11611 | 39.2 |
| Unknown | 3534 | 3.5 | 1076 | 3.6 |
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| Histology | ||||
| Ductal | 76060 | 76.2 | 23603 | 79.7 |
| Lobular | 18488 | 18.5 | 4381 | 14.8 |
| Other | 5314 | 5.3 | 1642 | 5.5 |
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| Surgery/Radiation | ||||
| Surgery and radiation | 42103 | 42.2 | 9906 | 33.4 |
| No radiation +/− surgery | 20816 | 20.8 | 6447 | 21.8 |
| Total mastectomy with/without radiation | 36042 | 36.1 | 12964 | 43.8 |
| Radiation and no surgery | 901 | 0.9 | 309 | 1.0 |
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| Chemotherapy | ||||
| No | 61458 | 61.5 | 13879 | 46.8 |
| Yes | 38404 | 38.5 | 15747 | 53.2 |
Abbreviations: NHW=non-Hispanic white; SES=socioeconomic status; AJCC=American Joint Committee on Cancer; BCS=Breast conserving Surgery.
*
nSES score based on Yost and Yang index principal components analysis of Census variables, at the block group level, scaled to quintiles across the state of California. The index score includes education, poverty, income, rent value, house value, blue collar, and unemployment.