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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 Oct 2;30(1):53–60. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-1038

Table 1.

Patient demographic and clinicopathological characteristics among 8523 non-Hispanic White (NHW) and Black (NHB) women diagnosed with stage I-IV breast cancer in the metropolitan Atlanta area between 2010–2014 and registered with the Georgia Cancer Registry.

Redlining Lending Bias
<1 ≥1 <3 ≥3
Neighborhood Characteristics N % N % N % N %
Percent Black
≥50% 99 2.1 2948 76 2574 55 473 12
<50% 4553 98 923 24 2106 45 3370 88
Percent Poverty
≥20% 369 7.9 1957 49 1672 36 693 18
<20% 4283 92 1914 51 2969 64 3189 82
Percent less than Highschool Education
≥20% 124 2.7 911 26 1323 29 530 14
<20% 4528 97 2960 74 3318 71 3352 86
Medium Household Income
<$44,311 213 4.6 1915 49 1502 32 587 15
$44,311- < $61,403 774 17 1355 35 1424 30 705 18
$61,403 - <$84,497 1578 34 544 14 1157 25 1004 26
≥ $84,497 2087 45 57 1.5 597 13 1547 40
Patient Characteristics
Median IQR Median IQR Median IQR Median IQR
Age at Diagnosis (years) 58 49, 68 58 49, 67 58 49, 66 59 49, 68
Length of Follow-up (months) 44 30, 62 43 28, 61 44 28, 61 44 29, 62
Time to event (months) 23 12, 37 21 11, 33 21 12, 33 23 10, 36
N % N % N % N %
Breast Cancer-Specific Death 314 3.7 493 5.8 486 5.7 321 3.8
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic Black 721 16 2859 75 2668 57 912 24
Non-Hispanic White 3931 85 1012 26 2012 43 2931 76
Stage
I 2496 54 1628 42 2093 45 2031 53
II 1483 32 1395 36 1654 35 1224 32
III 427 9.2 522 13 586 13 363 9.4
IV 246 5.3 326 8.4 347 7.4 225 5.9
Molecular Subtype
HR+/HER2− (Luminal A) 3260 75 2325 64 2936 67 2649 74
HR+/HER2+ (Luminal B) 496 11 461 13 553 13 404 11
HR−/HER2+ (HER2 Overexpressing) 175 4.1 182 5.0 205 4.7 152 4.3
HR−/HER2− (Triple Negative) 395 9.1 652 18 683 16 364 10
Unknown 326 251 303 274
Insurance Type
Uninsured 70 1.5 131 3.4 126 2.7 75 2.0
Private 3004 65 2050 53 2686 57 2368 62
Medicaid 186 4 469 12 453 9.7 202 5.3
Medicare 1295 28 1094 28 1266 27 1123 29
Military/Other/Unknown** 97 2.5 127 3.3 149 3.1 75 1.9
**

Mostly military; N=8 Other among NHB; N=0 Other among NHW