Table 1.
Characteristics of long-term colorectal cancer survivors in a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database (2000 to 2011; N=32,501).
| SEERa-Medicare characteristic and value | n (%) | |
| Hispanic/Latino (SEER-North American Association of Cancer Registries Hispanic Identification Algorithm identity) | ||
| Hispanic/Latino | 1509 (4.64) | |
| Non-Hispanic | 30,992 (95.36) | |
| Received a pneumococcal vaccine | ||
| Yes | 16,252 (50.00) | |
| No | 16,249 (50.00) | |
| Age at diagnosis (years) | ||
| 66-69 | 5367 (16.51) | |
| 70-74 | 8207 (25.25) | |
| 75-79 | 8283 (25.49) | |
| 80-84 | 6407 (19.71) | |
| 85+ | 4237 (13.04)% | |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 13993 43.05% | |
| Female | 18508 (56.95) | |
| Urban status | ||
| Urban/Metro | 28,533 (87.79) | |
| Rural | 3968 (12.21) | |
| Census tract federal poverty level (%) | ||
| 0 to <5 | 9464 (29.12) | |
| 5 to <10 | 9161 (28.19) | |
| 10 to <20 | 8795 (27.06) | |
| >20 | 5081 (15.63) | |
| Number of comorbidities (Charlson Index) | ||
| 0 | 21807 (67.10) | |
| 1 | 7339 (22.58) | |
| 2 | 2372 (7.30) | |
| 3 or more | 983 (3.0) | |
| Marital status | ||
| Divorced | 1800 (5.54) | |
| Married | 17473 (53.76) | |
| Other | 10,987 (33.81) | |
| Single | 2241 (6.90) | |
| Tumor stage at diagnosis | ||
| Localized | 18,689 (57.50) | |
| Regional | 12,297 (37.84) | |
| Distant | 870 (2.7) | |
| Unstaged | 645 (1.98) | |
| SEER registry region | ||
| San Francisco | 1119 (3.44) | |
| Connecticut | 2261 (6.96) | |
| San Jose | 721 (2.2) | |
| Los Angeles | 2120 (6.52) | |
| Greater California | 5124 (15.77) | |
| New Jersey | 5620 (17.29) | |
| New Mexico | 744 (2.3) | |
| Otherb | 14792 (45.51) | |
aSEER: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.
bCombined if less than 50 in the registry identified as Hispanic.