Table 2A.
Patient Characteristics | NCCN risk group | ||||||
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High risk (n = 1047) |
Low risk (n = 1168) |
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No BS | BS | p | No BS | BS | p | ||
Total, n (%) | 354 (33.8) | 693 (66.2) | 945 (80.9) | 223 (19.1) | |||
Age at diagnosis (years), ẋ ± sd | 68.72 ± 9.2 | 67.05 ± 8.69 | 0.004 | 63.38 ± 7.4 | 64.43 ± 7.2 | 0.054 | |
Insurance Payor Type, n (%) | Private | 102 (29.4) | 245 (70.6) | 0.095 | 448 (84.1) | 85 (15.9) | 0.020 |
Medicare | 211 (35.8) | 378 (64.2) | 422 (77.8) | 121 (22.2) | |||
Medicaid | 14 (28.0) | 36 (72.0) | 33 (86.8) | 5 (13.2) | |||
Ethnicity, n (%) | Non-Hispanic | 323 (34.0) | 628 (66.0) | 0.227 | 869 (80.8) | 206 (19.2) | 0.939 |
Hispanic | 24 (27.6) | 63 (72.4) | 69 (81.2) | 16 (18.8) | |||
Race, n (%) | Asian | 36 (23.8) | 115 (76.2) | 0.019 | 91 (83.5) | 18 (16.5) | 0.590 |
White | 261 (35.5) | 475 (64.5) | 732 (80.2) | 181 (19.8) | |||
Others | 25 (36.8) | 43 (63.2) | 42 (84.0) | 8 (16.0) |