TABLE 3. Comparison of Opportunity Versus No Opportunity (N = 87)a and Eligible Versus Ineligible (N = 73)b Patients by Sociodemographic and Disease Characteristics.
Opportunity (n = 18) |
No Opportunity (n = 69) |
Eligible (n = 12) |
Ineligible (n = 61) |
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Characteristic | SD | SD | pc | SD | SD | pc | ||||
Age (years) | 59.6 | 8.9 | 55.2 | 12.5 | 0.17 | 55.4 | 9.5 | 55.3 | 11.5 | 0.98 |
Characteristic | n | n | pc | n | n | pc |
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Race or ethnicity | 0.43 | 0.53 | ||||
Black or Hispanic | 11 | 33 | 4 | 29 | ||
Non-Hispanic White | 7 | 36 | 8 | 32 | ||
Sex | 0.69 | 0.08 | ||||
Female | 15 | 61 | 8 | 54 | ||
Male | 3 | 8 | 4 | 7 | ||
Insuranced | 0.05 | 1 | ||||
Private | 8 | 50 | 8 | 42 | ||
Medicare | 7 | 15 | 3 | 14 | ||
Medicaid | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||
Education | 0.09 | 0.26 | ||||
High school or less | 13 | 32 | 9 | 29 | ||
Associate or bachelor’s | 3 | 20 | 2 | 17 | ||
Graduate or professional | 1 | 17 | 1 | 15 | ||
Annual household income ($) | 0.28 | 0.66 | ||||
Less than 25,000 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 8 | ||
25,000–49,999 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 12 | ||
50,000–99,999 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 13 | ||
100,000 or greater | 2 | 19 | 3 | 17 | ||
Language | 1 | 0.42 | ||||
English | 16 | 66 | 11 | 59 | ||
Bilingual | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
Cancer type | 0.08 | 0.13 | ||||
Breast | 8 | 49 | 5 | 41 | ||
Lung | 4 | 11 | 4 | 9 | ||
Leukemia | 5 | 6 | 3 | 7 | ||
Other | 1 | 3 | – | 4 | ||
Cancer stagee | 0.001 | 0.00 | ||||
0–II | 1 | 35 | – | 36 | ||
III–IV | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 | ||
Recurrent or relapsed | 1 | 8 | – | 9 | ||
Other | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6 | ||
Performance statuse | 0.41 | 1 | ||||
ECOG 0 | 9 | 21 | 7 | 23 | ||
ECOG 1 | – | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||
ECOG 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 3 |
One participant unsure about opportunity status removed from sample.
Fifteen participants declined electronic medical record review.
All p values are two-sided Fisher’s exact tests performed on non-missing observations.
One participant with no insurance was removed from this analysis.
This information was only collected if available for participants that consented to electronic medical record review (n = 73).
ECOG—Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
Note. Unless otherwise indicated, missing observations reflect participant non-response or that information was not present in the electronic medical record.