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Table 1_3_5.1
Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, United States, 2003 and 2005
Population group 2005 2003
Percent SE Percent SE
Total 59.9 0.3 51.5 0.3
Anatomic location Right 67.9 0.3 60.2 0.4
Transverse 56.8 0.9 47.3 0.8
Sigmoid 50.1 0.4 40.9 0.4
Age Under 40 77.5 1.6 67.9 1.8
40–49 69.6 1.0 63.9 1.1
50–59 62.3 0.6 54.9 0.7
60–69 59.2 0.6 51.1 0.6
70–79 58.5 0.5 49.8 0.5
80 and over 57.0 0.5 48.1 0.5
Race American Indian/Alaska Native * * * *
Asian 64.9 1.6 56.6 1.7
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander * * * *
Black only 58.2 0.8 52.1 0.8
White only 59.9 0.3 51.2 0.3
Ethnicity Hispanic, all races 60.7 1.2 52.4 1.3
Non-Hispanic, other 63.8 1.6 56.2 1.7
Non-Hispanic, Black 58.2 0.8 51.8 0.8
Non-Hispanic, White 60.1 0.3 51.1 0.3
Health insurance, under age 65 Private 62.6 0.5 56.0 0.5
Public only 58.3 0.3 49.3 0.3
Uninsured/other 62.3 0.7 54.1 0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over Medicare only 57.0 0.7 48.3 0.7
Medicare and supplement 58.4 0.4 49.2 0.4
Family incomea Negative/poor 57.1 3.5 58.5 3.3
Near poor/low 58.4 0.3 50.3 0.3
Middle 63.8 0.5 54.7 0.5
High 66.7 1.6 56.2 1.7
Residence location Metropolitan 61.0 0.3 52.6 0.3
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 61.9 0.4 53.4 0.4
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 59.6 0.5 51.3 0.5
Micropolitan 51.6 0.9 43.8 0.9
Noncore 58.7 1.0 49.2 1.0
  Noncore, adjacent 59.2 1.2 49.4 1.1
  Noncore, rural 56.7 2.2 48.3 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.

 

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