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Table 16c
Patients with breast cancer who received recommended treatment: radiation therapy to the breast within 1 year of diagnosis for women under age 70 receiving breast conserving surgery, by family income,a United States, 2004
Population group Total Negative/poor Near poor/low Middle High
Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total   73.7 0.3 * * 73.6 0.4 74.9 0.5 74.7 1.4
Age Under age 40 65.4 1.2 * * 64.7 1.5 67.3 2.3 * *
40-49 71.9 0.6 * * 71.6 0.7 72.9 1.0 72.9 2.7
50-59 74.6 0.5 * * 74.7 0.6 76.0 0.8 75.9 2.4
60-69 75.9 0.5 * * 75.6 0.6 77.0 1.0 77.1 2.6
Health insurance, ages 0-64 Private 74.4 0.4 * * 74.2 0.5 75.4 0.6 75.8 1.7
Public 72.1 0.6 * * 71.3 0.8 75.4 1.4 * *
Not insured and other 73.5 0.6 * * 74.2 0.7 72.9 1.2 69.1 3.5
Health insurance, ages 65-70 Medicare only 72.2 1.8 * * 72.6 2.2 67.2 4.3 * *
Medicare and supplement 78.6 1.0 * * 78.5 1.2 80.3 1.8 * *
Residence location Fringe metro, more than 1 million 72.1 0.4 * * 69.8 0.6 74.6 0.6 75.0 1.6
Metro, 0.25-1 million 75.7 0.6 * * 75.6 0.7 76.7 1.3 73.0 4.2
Metro, less than 0.25 million 78.2 0.9 * * 78.2 0.9 78.5 3.1 * *
Non-metro, urban 76.5 0.8 * * 76.8 0.8 72.0 4.5 * *
Completely rural 76.7 2.3 * * 76.2 2.4 * * * *
Residence location Metropolitan 73.6 0.3 * * 72.8 0.4 75.0 0.5 74.8 1.5
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 72.1 0.4 * * 69.8 0.6 74.6 0.6 75.0 1.6
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 76.5 0.5 * * 76.5 0.6 77.0 1.2 73.3 4.1
Micropolitan 77.3 1.0 * * 77.8 1.0 * * * *
Noncore 75.3 1.2 * * 75.3 1.2 * * * *
  Noncore, adjacent 76.3 1.4 * * 76.2 1.4 * * * *
  Noncore, rural 72.0 2.6 * * 72.4 2.7 * * * *

a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below $17,500; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

* Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons and American Cancer Society, National Cancer Data Base.

 
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