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Table 1_1_3.2b
Women under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy to the breast within 1 year of diagnosis, by ethnicity, United States, 2005
Population group Total Non-Hispanic Hispanic, all races
All races White Black
Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total 74.0 0.3 74.9 0.3 76.0 0.3 68.3 0.9 61.5 1.4
Age Under 40 66.4 1.2 68.0 1.3 69.6 1.5 64.4 3.0 51.7 4.1
40–49 72.1 0.6 73.1 0.6 74.3 0.7 66.5 1.7 60.4 2.4
50–59 75.0 0.4 75.8 0.5 76.5 0.5 70.5 1.5 60.9 2.3
60–69 75.9 0.5 76.7 0.5 77.6 0.5 68.9 1.9 68.4 2.6
Health insurance, ages 0–64 Private 74.7 0.4 75.1 0.4 75.9 0.4 69.2 1.3 67.6 1.9
Public 73.7 0.6 74.4 0.7 76.5 0.7 65.4 1.8 63.6 2.5
Uninsured/other 72.8 0.5 75.1 0.6 75.9 0.6 69.7 1.9 48.2 2.7
Health insurance, ages 65–70 Medicare only 71.0 1.9 72.1 2.0 73.6 2.1 * * * *
Medicare and supplement 78.0 0.9 78.5 1.0 79.1 1.0 71.7 3.8 * *
Family incomea Negative/poor * * * * * * * * * *
Near poor/low 74.0 0.4 74.8 0.4 76.1 0.4 68.3 1.1 61.0 1.6
Middle 75.2 0.5 76.0 0.5 76.8 0.6 68.8 2.5 64.9 3.2
High 72.2 1.4 73.4 1.5 73.9 1.6 * * * *
Residence location Metropolitan 73.9 0.3 74.7 0.3 75.8 0.4 68.4 1.0 61.1 1.5
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 72.3 0.4 73.4 0.4 74.8 0.5 67.2 1.2 61.7 1.7
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 76.6 0.5 77.1 0.5 77.5 0.6 71.6 1.9 59.7 2.9
Micropolitan 77.2 0.9 78.5 1.0 79.0 1.0 72.7 4.1 * *
Noncore 75.9 1.1 76.4 1.2 77.0 1.2 * * * *
  Noncore, adjacent 76.7 1.2 77.2 1.3 77.7 1.4 * * * *
  Noncore, rural 73.1 2.5 73.6 2.7 74.3 2.8 * * * *

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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