2007 National Healthcare Quality Report: Data Tables Appendix--Table 1.16

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Table 1.16
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, United States, 1999 and 2004

Population group		2004^a		1999
Population group		Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
Total		73.7	0.3	73.7	0.2
Age	Under age 40	65.4	1.2	68.3	0.8
	40-49	71.9	0.6	71.9	0.4
	50-59	74.6	0.5	74.4	0.3
	60-69	75.9	0.5	75.6	0.3
Race	American Indian/Alaska Native	DSU	DSU	72.5	4.3
	Asian	71.0	1.7	73.1	1.3
	Hawaiian Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	66.2	0.9	68.9	0.7
	White only	75.1	0.3	74.7	0.2
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	61.0	1.4	65.4	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, other	70.2	1.6	73.5	1.3
	Non-Hispanic, Black	65.9	1.0	69.0	0.7
	Non-Hispanic, White	75.8	0.3	75.1	0.2
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	74.4	0.4	75.4	0.3
	Public only	72.1	0.6	73.0	0.5
	Uninsured/other	73.5	0.6	72.3	0.3
Health insurance, ages 65-70	Medicare only	72.2	1.8	72.5	1.1
Health insurance, ages 65-70	Medicare and supplement	78.6	1.0	76.3	0.7
Family income^b	Negative/poor	DSU	DSU	69.7	3.4
	Near poor/low	73.6	0.4	74.1	0.2
	Middle	74.9	0.5	73.2	0.4
	High	74.7	1.4	72.0	1.0
Residence location	Fringe metro, more than 1 million	72.1	0.4	71.5	0.3
	Metro, 0.25-1 million	75.7	0.6	76.4	0.4
	Metro, less than 0.25 million	78.2	0.9	77.7	0.6
	Non-metro, urban	76.5	0.8	75.6	0.6
	Completely rural	76.7	2.3	74.9	1.6
Residence location	Metropolitan	73.6	0.3	73.3	0.2
	Large metropolitan, more than 1 million	72.1	0.4	71.5	0.3
	Small metropolitan, less than 1 million	76.5	0.5	76.8	0.4
	Micropolitan	77.3	1.0	75.7	0.7
	Noncore	75.3	1.2	75.1	0.8
	Noncore, adjacent	76.3	1.4	75.2	1.0
	Noncore, rural	72.0	2.6	74.8	1.7

^a Concordance computed for diagnosis months January - June 2004.

^b 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.

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

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