Table 2.
Characteristics of elderly patients with M1b colon cancer by insurance status
| Total | Uninsured (233) |
Insured (4697) |
Medicaid (779) |
P/Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | 0.901 | ||||
| Male | 2970 | 123 (52.8%) | 2447 (52.1%) | 400 (51.3%) | |
| Female | 2739 | 110 (47.2%) | 2250 (47.9%) | 379 (48.7%) | |
| Race | 0.000 | ||||
| White | 4373 | 169 (72.5%) | 3731 (79.4%) | 473 (60.7%) | |
| Black | 855 | 51 (21.9%) | 628 (13.4%) | 176 (22.6%) | |
| Others | 481 | 13 (5.6%) | 338 (7.2%) | 130 (16.7%) | |
| Surgery | 0.018 | ||||
| None | 3106 | 138 (59.2%) | 2515 (53.5%) | 453 (58.2%) | |
| Surgery | 2603 | 95 (40.8%) | 2182 (46.5%) | 326 (41.8%) | |
| Radiation | 0.172 | ||||
| None/Unknown | 5444 | 221 (94.8%) | 4470 (95.2%) | 753 (96.7%) | |
| Yes | 265 | 12 (5.2%) | 227 (4.8%) | 26 (3.3%) | |
| Chemotherapy | 0.000 | ||||
| None/Unknown | 2428 | 112 (48.1%) | 1919 (40.9%) | 397 (51.0%) | |
| Yes | 3281 | 121 (51.9%) | 2778 (59.1%) | 382 (49.0%) | |
| Marital status | 0.000 | ||||
| Single/Widowed/Separated/Divorced | 2651 | 126 (54.1%) | 2033 (43.3%) | 492 (63.2%) | |
| Married/Partner | 3058 | 107 (45.9%) | 2664 (56.7%) | 287 (36.8%) |