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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2021 Aug 5;127(24):4574–4584. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33855

Table 1:

Patient Characteristics

AYA Patients
(n=7,071)
Patients 40 or Older
(N=77,110)
N % N % p-value
Age
 <30 1,893 26.7 NA NA NA
 30–39 5,178 73.2 NA NA
Sex (all cancers) <.001
 Female 4,862 68.8 45,281 58.7
 Male 2,209 31.2 31,829 41.3
Sex (non-sex specific cancers1) <.001
 Female 1,731 44.1 14,193 37.9
 Male 2,190 55.9 23,259 62.1
Race2 <.001
 Black 684 10.1 6,020 8.2
 Asian/PI 316 4.7 2,453 3.3
 Native American 45 0.7 335 0.5
 White 5,687 84.2 64,618 87.8
 Multiple 26 0.4 150 0.2
 Unknown 313 3,534
Ethnicity2 <.001
 Hispanic 701 10.6 4,042 5.6
 Not Hispanic 5,928 89.4 67,681 94.4
 Unknown 442 5,386
Racial/Ethnic Minority3 <.001
 Any Minority 1,740 25.0 12,851 17.2
 Not Minority 5,211 75.0 61,815 82.8
 Unknown 120 2,444
1

Excludes breast, cervical, endometrial, ovarian, and prostate.

2

Percentages calculated among those with known data.

3

Any racial/ethnic minority defined as self-report of any category of Black, Asian/PI, Native American, or Hispanic.