Table 1.
Summary of patients’ characteristics by race, Retrospective Cohort of South Carolina Cancer Registry, 2002 to 2010.
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Total (N=2155) |
White N=1557 (72.25) |
Black N=598 (27.75) |
P- value |
|
| Age (mean±SD) | 51.2(7.2) | 51.6(7.0) | 50.2(7.6) | <0.01 | |
| Age categories | Under 45 years old | 386(17.9) | 256(16.4) | 130(21.7) | <0.01 |
| 45-54 years old | 924(42.9) | 649(41.7) | 275(46.0) | ||
| 55-64 years old | 845(39.2) | 652(41.9) | 193(32.3) | ||
| Marital status | Not married | 639(29.7) | 359(23.1) | 280(46.8) | <0.01 |
| Married | 1256(58.3) | 1020(65.5) | 236(39.5) | ||
| Unknown/Missing | 260 (12.0) | 178 (11.4) | 82 (13.7) | ||
| Rural/Urban status | Urban | 1634(75.8) | 1232(79.1) | 402(67.2) | <0.01 |
| Rural | 521(24.2) | 325(20.9) | 196(32.8) | ||
| Year of diagnosis | 2002-2004 | 611(28.3) | 452(29.0) | 159(26.6) | 0.02 |
| 2005-2007 | 693(32.2) | 518(33.3) | 175(29.3) | ||
| 2008-2010 | 851(39.5) | 587(37.7) | 264(44.2) | ||
| Hormone receptor status | Positive | 926(43.0) | 709(45.5) | 217(36.3) | <0.01 |
| Negative | 264(12.2) | 166(10.7) | 98(16.4) | ||
| Unknown/Missing | 965(44.8) | 682(43.8) | 283(47.3) | ||
| Stage at Diagnosis | In-situ | 422(19.6) | 299(19.2) | 123(20.6) | 0.68 |
| Local | 1013(47.0) | 741(47.6) | 272(45.5) | ||
| Regional | 657(30.5) | 470(30.2) | 187(31.3) | ||
| Distant | 46(2.1) | 36(2.3) | 10(1.7) | ||
| Unknown | 17 (0.8) | 11(0.7) | 6(1.0) | ||
| Cancer grade | I | 392(18.2) | 300(19.3) | 92(15.4) | <0.01 |
| II | 785(36.4) | 608(39.0) | 177(29.6) | ||
| III | 749(34.8) | 479(30.8) | 270(45.1) | ||
| IV | 32(1.5) | 22(1.4) | 10(1.7) | ||
| Unknown | 197(9.1) | 148(9.5) | 49(8.2) | ||
| Best Chance Network | Yes | 119(5.5) | 60(3.8) | 59(9.9) | <0.01 |
| No | 2036(94.5) | 1497(96.2) | 539(90.1) | ||
| Insurance provider | 1 | 1640(76.1) | 1285(82.3) | 358(59.9) | <0.01 |
| 2 | 515(23.9) | 275(17.7) | 240(40.1) | ||
| Average distance to AHT provider (miles) | 7.3±17.0 | 7.2±18.1 | 7.4±13.4 | 0.79 | |
| Average distance to Surgery provider (miles) | 19.9±23.5 | 20.0±25.0 | 19.6±19.1 | 0.72 | |
| Average distance to Radiation provider (miles) | 18.6±18.5 | 18.2±18.3 | 19.8±19.1 | 0.17 | |
| Average distance to Chemotherapy provider (miles) | 20.6±20.7 | 19.7±20.3 | 22.6±21.5 | 0.03 |
P-values were obtained comparing Black women with White women using Student’s t-test for numeric variables and Chi-square for categorical variables.