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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 29.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Feb 14;180(2):491–501. doi: 10.1007/s10549-020-05557-x

Table 1.

Patient characteristics and the proportion of receiving Oncotype DX test by patient characteristics, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients from 17 SEER registries, 2004–2015 (N = 390,396)

N0 (N = 288,684)
N1 (N = 101,712)
% % of patients with ODX % % of patients with ODX

All 31.47 14.76
Age P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 < 50 17.41 41.16 27.77 10.92
 50–59 22.64 42.10 26.24 15.75
 60–69 27.48 37.03 24.02 19.50
 70–79 20.64 20.05 14.63 17.52
 ≥ 80 11.83 3.86 7.34 4.75
Race/ethnicity P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 NH white 75.11 31.32 70.03 15.63
 NH black 7.69 32.05 10.03 12.28
 NH American Indian/Alaska Native 0.39 31.66 0.44 14.77
 NH Asian or Pacific Islander 7.73 32.55 7.89 13.69
 Hispanic (all races) 8.69 31.08 11.23 12.31
 NH unknown race 0.38 35.50 0.38 16.15
Marital status P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 Married 55.64 35.40 57.25 15.74
 Single 12.48 33.43 14.25 14.03
 Other 27.52 22.64 24.47 12.91
 Unknown 4.36 31.44 4.03 14.80
Insurance type (2007–2015) P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 Insured 75.01 38.17 71.99 19.42
 Medicaid 8.48 33.34 11.63 13.49
 Insured but insurance type not specified 13.74 34.76 13.14 18.76
 Uninsured 1.08 39.48 1.67 15.27
 Unknown 1.69 38.25 1.57 19.12
Tumor grade P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 Well differentiated 28.14 29.43 16.85 22.50
 Moderately differentiated 48.53 34.48 49.37 16.53
 Poorly differentiated/undifferentiated 20.46 28.15 30.48 8.26
 Unknown 2.86 24.14 3.30 8.91
Tumor size, cm P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 0.6–2.0 for N0 or ≤ 2.0 for N1 74.33 32.21 47.29 19.45
 2.1–5.0 23.29 30.59 44.00 11.54
 > 5.0 2.38 16.84 8.71 5.60
Surgery & reported radiation P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 Mastectomy, no/unknown radiation 32.28 30.39 36.43 13.16
 Mastectomy, radiation 2.76 24.94 18.47 8.63
 Lumpectomy, no/unknown radiation 16.79 20.86 12.65 13.03
 Lumpectomy, radiation 48.17 36.27 32.44 20.73
Reported chemotherapy P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 Yes 23.73 28.89 63.20 8.12
 No/unknown 76.27 32.27 36.80 26.17
State/area P < 0.0001 P < 0.0001
 California 41.17 26.00 40.97 13.23
 Connecticut 5.59 34.85 4.81 16.18
 Georgia 10.18 38.38 10.84 15.98
 Hawaii 1.92 38.04 1.71 18.34
 Iowa 4.02 27.20 3.80 13.43
 Kentucky 5.37 30.29 4.96 13.21
 Louisiana 4.46 34.31 4.84 15.36
 Detroit 5.02 39.25 5.24 17.10
 New Jersey 11.26 41.52 11.41 17.98
 New Mexico 2.00 41.27 2.09 21.05
 Utah 2.20 27.31 2.66 9.33
 Seattle 6.81 27.24 6.68 14.59
Recurrence score (original cutoff points)a
 Low (< 18) 56.52 59.36
 Intermediate (18–30) 35.74 34.08
 High (≥ 31) 7.74 6.56
Recurrence score (TAILOXr cutoff points)a
 Low (< 11) 20.52 21.72
 Intermediate (11–25) 64.29 64.98
 High (≥ 26) 15.19 13.30

N0 with negative axillary lymph node, N1 with 1–3 positive ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes, ODX Oncotype DX, NH non-Hispanic

a

Among patients who had Recurrence Score