Table 18a Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, by race, United States, 2004 |
Population group |
Total |
White |
Black |
Asian |
Percent |
SE |
Percent |
SE |
Percent |
SE |
Percent |
SE |
Total |
|
55.0 |
0.3 |
54.9 |
0.3 |
53.8 |
0.8 |
59.8 |
1.7 |
Anatomic Location |
Right |
63.5 |
0.4 |
63.4 |
0.4 |
61.6 |
1.1 |
73.2 |
2.5 |
Transverse |
52.5 |
0.9 |
52.1 |
0.9 |
54.8 |
2.5 |
* |
* |
Sigmoid |
44.5 |
0.4 |
44.2 |
0.5 |
43.1 |
1.2 |
51.3 |
2.3 |
Age |
Under age 40 |
73.3 |
1.8 |
73.0 |
2.1 |
72.6 |
4.3 |
* |
* |
40-49 |
66.5 |
1.0 |
67.5 |
1.2 |
62.5 |
2.5 |
* |
* |
50-59 |
57.4 |
0.7 |
56.8 |
0.8 |
58.5 |
1.6 |
65.6 |
3.7 |
60-69 |
54.5 |
0.6 |
55.0 |
0.6 |
51.3 |
1.5 |
56.3 |
3.4 |
70-79 |
53.6 |
0.5 |
53.7 |
0.5 |
50.8 |
1.5 |
54.9 |
3.3 |
80 and over |
51.6 |
0.6 |
51.6 |
0.6 |
46.5 |
2.1 |
56.6 |
4.4 |
Health insurance, under age 65 |
Private |
57.8 |
0.5 |
57.4 |
0.6 |
58.9 |
1.5 |
62.3 |
2.7 |
Public |
53.1 |
0.3 |
53.2 |
0.4 |
51.2 |
1.0 |
55.1 |
2.4 |
Not insured and other |
59.1 |
0.7 |
59.5 |
0.8 |
54.8 |
1.8 |
69.0 |
4.1 |
Health insurance, age 65 and over |
Medicare only |
52.1 |
0.7 |
51.9 |
0.8 |
49.8 |
1.9 |
64.2 |
4.4 |
Medicare and supplement |
53.2 |
0.4 |
53.4 |
0.4 |
50.3 |
1.5 |
48.5 |
3.5 |
Family incomea |
Negative/poor |
54.6 |
3.5 |
* |
* |
51.4 |
4.8 |
* |
* |
Near poor/low |
53.4 |
0.3 |
53.2 |
0.4 |
53.0 |
0.9 |
59.7 |
2.3 |
Middle |
59.1 |
0.5 |
58.6 |
0.6 |
63.3 |
2.4 |
61.8 |
2.7 |
High |
62.1 |
1.7 |
62.4 |
1.8 |
* |
* |
* |
* |
Residence location |
Fringe metro, more than 1 million |
57.2 |
0.4 |
57.1 |
0.4 |
56.8 |
56.8 |
55.6 |
2.1 |
Metro, 0.25-1 million |
56.4 |
0.6 |
56.3 |
0.6 |
52.8 |
52.8 |
69.8 |
3.4 |
Metro, less than 0.25 million |
49.5 |
0.8 |
49.8 |
0.9 |
45.0 |
45.0 |
* |
* |
Non-metro, urban |
49.3 |
0.7 |
49.4 |
0.8 |
45.5 |
45.5 |
* |
* |
Completely rural |
55.6 |
1.9 |
56.4 |
1.9 |
* |
* |
* |
* |
Residence location |
Metropolitan |
56.0 |
0.3 |
55.8 |
0.3 |
55.1 |
0.8 |
59.0 |
1.8 |
Large metropolitan, more than 1 million |
57.2 |
0.4 |
57.1 |
0.4 |
56.8 |
1.0 |
55.6 |
2.1 |
Small metropolitan, less than 1 million |
54.0 |
0.5 |
54.0 |
0.5 |
50.4 |
1.6 |
69.2 |
3.3 |
Micropolitan |
47.7 |
0.9 |
47.7 |
1.0 |
44.2 |
3.4 |
* |
* |
Noncore |
53.2 |
1.0 |
53.7 |
1.1 |
47.0 |
3.9 |
* |
* |
Noncore, adjacent |
52.5 |
1.2 |
52.7 |
1.2 |
49.7 |
4.2 |
* |
* |
Noncore, rural |
55.8 |
2.2 |
56.9 |
2.3 |
* |
* |
* |
* |
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.