Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries without a previous cancer diagnosis, by race/ethnicity (percent)
| White (n=27,276) |
Black (n=2,278) |
Other* (n=1,339) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristicˆ | N | % | n | % | n | % |
| Age (years) | ||||||
| 70-74 | 7,190 | 26.4 | 716 | 31.4 | 482 | 36.0 |
| 75-79 | 8,405 | 30.8 | 698 | 30.6 | 400 | 29.9 |
| 80-84 | 7,559 | 27.9 | 565 | 24.8 | 312 | 23.3 |
| 85-89 | 4,082 | 15.0 | 299 | 13.1 | 145 | 10.8 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 10,152 | 37.2 | 785 | 34.5 | 585 | 43.7 |
| Female | 17,124 | 62.8 | 1,493 | 65.5 | 754 | 56.3 |
| Median household income in zip code | ||||||
| First quartile, highest | 6,993 | 25.6 | 171 | 7.5 | 268 | 20.0 |
| Second quartile | 6,835 | 25.1 | 262 | 11.5 | 328 | 24.5 |
| Third quartile | 6,607 | 24.2 | 498 | 21.9 | 334 | 24.9 |
| Fourth quartile, lowest | 5,849 | 21.4 | 1,267 | 55.6 | 318 | 23.7 |
| Unknown | 992 | 3.6 | 80 | 3.5 | 91 | 6.8 |
| SEER Registry Area of Residence | ||||||
| California | 7,734 | 28.4 | 479 | 21.0 | 879 | 65.6 |
| Connecticut | 2,096 | 7.7 | 88 | 3.9 | 40 | 3.0 |
| Detroit | 2,174 | 8.0 | 451 | 19.8 | 16 | 1.2 |
| Hawaii | 119 | 0.4 | <11 | <1.0 | 167 | 12.5 |
| Iowa | 2,208 | 8.1 | 26 | 1.1 | <11 | <1.0 |
| New Mexico | 704 | 2.6 | 17 | 0.8 | 83 | 6.2 |
| Seattle-Puget Sound | 1,587 | 5.8 | 34 | 1.5 | 31 | 2.3 |
| Utah | 874 | 3.2 | <11 | <1.0 | <11 | <1.0 |
| Atlanta/Rural Georgia | 892 | 3.3 | 226 | 9.9 | <11 | <1.0 |
| Kentucky | 2,670 | 9.8 | 132 | 5.8 | <11 | <1.0 |
| Louisiana | 1,614 | 5.9 | 473 | 20.8 | 13 | 1.0 |
| New Jersey | 4,604 | 16.9 | 346 | 15.2 | 85 | 6.3 |
| Urban/Rural Residence | ||||||
| Big metropolitan | 14,795 | 54.2 | 1,536 | 67.4 | 862 | 64.4 |
| Metropolitan | 7,640 | 28.0 | 471 | 20.7 | 364 | 27.2 |
| Urban | 1,779 | 6.5 | 92 | 4.0 | 71 | 5.3 |
| Less urban/Rural | 3,062 | 11.2 | 179 | 7.9 | 42 | 3.1 |
| Index Year | ||||||
| 1996 | 3,054 | 11.2 | 262 | 11.5 | 140 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 3,101 | 11.4 | 279 | 12.3 | 128 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 3,047 | 11.2 | 259 | 11.4 | 141 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 3,260 | 12.0 | 261 | 11.5 | 143 | 10.7 |
| 2000 | 3,243 | 11.9 | 283 | 12.4 | 159 | 11.9 |
| 2001 | 3,043 | 11.2 | 257 | 11.3 | 158 | 11.8 |
| 2002 | 2,817 | 10.3 | 231 | 10.1 | 138 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 2,519 | 9.2 | 185 | 8.1 | 151 | 11.3 |
| 2004 | 1,903 | 7.0 | 168 | 7.4 | 104 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 1,289 | 4.7 | 93 | 4.1 | 77 | 5.8 |
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All chi-square tests for the distribution of demographic and clinical characteristics among these 4 racial/ethnic groups were statistically significant (P <.05).
*
Other includes Hispanics and Asian/Pacific Islanders.
Categories with cases less than 11 were suppressed as required by the data user agreement at the time of review by the SEER-Medicare office.