Table 2.

The treatment status among Chinese adults with cancer in 2015, by residence location.

Variables	Total		Urban		Rural		p Value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
All patients	381	100.00	170	100.00	211	100.00
Overall treatments	189	49.61	95	55.88	94	44.55	0.028
Chinese traditional medicine (TCM)	70	18.37	39	22.94	31	14.69	0.039
Western modern medicine (WMM)	117	30.71	58	34.12	59	27.96	0.195
Medication treatment (TCM or WMM)	137	35.96	71	41.76	66	31.28	0.034
Surgery therapy	101	26.51	51	30.00	50	23.7	0.166
Radiation/chemotherapy	67	17.59	32	18.82	35	16.59	0.569
Multiple treatments					0
TCM & WMM	50	13.12	26	15.29	24	11.37	0.26
Medication & Surgery therapy	61	16.01	31	18.24	30	14.22	0.288
Medication & Radiation/chemotherapy	45	11.81	23	13.53	22	10.43	0.351
Surgery & Radiation/chemotherapy	39	10.24	22	12.94	17	8.06	0.118
Health service use			0		1
Outpatient visit	115	30.18	46	27.06	69	32.7	0.233
Inpatient visit	113	29.66	55	32.35	58	27.49	0.301
Outpatient & Inpatient visit	44	11.55	18	10.59	26	12.32	0.599
Catastrophic health expenditure	102	26.77	34	20.00	68	32.23	0.007

Note: Overall treatments, refers to the patient has at least one type of treatment/therapy included in this study. TCM, Chinese traditional medicine; WMM, Western modern medicine. p value, Chi-square test.