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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 Feb 20;28(5):926–934. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-18-0917

Table 2:

Patient factors associated with erlotinib treatment (univariate analyses).

Entire cohort Had genetic test No genetic test
Treated with
erlotinib (N
(%))
P-value Treated with
erlotinib (N
(%))
P-value Treated with
erlotinib (N
(%))
P-value
SES Variables
Income 0.0131 * 0.5622 0.1282
Low income 523 (12.4) 73 (22.9) 450 (11.6)
Not low income 804 (14.1) 177 (24.6) 657 (12.6)
High-poverty location .0002 * 0.6300 0.0026 *
High-poverty 646 (12.2) 102 (23.2) 544 (11.2)
Not high-poverty 622 (14.8) 136 (24.6) 486 (13.3)
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics
Sex <.0001 * 0.0178 * <.0001 *
Female 807 (16.1) 158 (26.8) 649 (14.6)
Male 520 (10.7) 92 (20.4) 428 (9.7)
Race <.0001 * 0.0004 * <.0001 *
White 966 (12.1) 189 (22.0) 777 (11.0)
Black** 88 (8.8) <11 (<20.8) >77 (>8.1)
Asian 169 (33.9) 28 (37.8) 141 (33.2)
Hispanic** 33 (16.8) <11 (<73.3) >22 (>12.2)
Other or unknown 71 (29.0) 17 (43.6) 54 (26.2)
Histology <.0001 * 0.1359 <.0001 *
Adenocarcinoma 868 (16.9) 198 (25.2) 670 (15.4)
Other non-small cell 459 (9.6) 52 (20.6) 407 (9.0)
Age at diagnosis 0.1351 0.1615 0.1736
Under 75 596 (12.9) 118 (22.2) 478 (11.7)
75 or older 731 (13.9) 132 (25.9) 599 (12.6)
Urban location <.0001 * 0.0051 * 0.0061 *
Urban 1143 (13.9) 228 (25.1) 915 (12.5)
Not urban** 127 (9.8) <11 (<12.8) >116 (>9.6)
Diagnosis year 0.0002 * <.0001 * <.0001 *
2007 298 (15.4) 14 (45.2) 284 (15.0)
2008 270 (14.0) 23 (37.7) 247 (13.2)
2009 291 (14.6) 60 (33.0) 231 (12.8)
2010 233 (11.4) 70 (22.5) 163 (9.4)
2011 235 (11.7) 83 (18.4) 152 (9.8)
Charlson index 0.0088 * 0.0088 * <.0001*
0 26 (15.8) 126 (28.8) 419 (16.1)
1 32 (22.7) 66 (23.3) 332 (12.4)
2 66 (23.3) 32 (22.7) 148 (10.0)
3+ 126 (28.8) 26 (15.7) 160 (8.4)
*

= Significant at the 0.05 level

**

= Data masked to comply with SEER-Medicare policy regarding cells <11