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Table 1_3_5.2c
Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, by family income,a United States, 2005
Population group Total Negative/poor Near poor/low Middle High
Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total 59.9 0.3 57.1 3.5 58.4 0.3 63.8 0.5 66.7 1.6
Anatomic location Right 67.9 0.3 * * 66.2 0.4 72.0 0.7 72.2 2.1
Transverse 56.8 0.9 * * 55.1 1.0 61.7 1.8 * *
Sigmoid 50.1 0.4 * * 48.9 0.5 52.9 0.9 59.2 3.0
Age Under 40 77.5 1.6 * * 75.1 2.0 81.8 3.2 * *
40–49 69.6 1.0 * * 69.0 1.2 71.6 1.9 * *
50–59 62.3 0.6 * * 61.1 0.8 66.0 1.3 65.6 4.2
60–69 59.2 0.6 * * 57.5 0.7 64.4 1.1 68.3 3.6
70–79 58.5 0.5 * * 56.8 0.6 62.7 1.0 67.2 3.0
80 and over 57.0 0.5 * * 55.7 0.7 59.8 1.1 61.6 3.3
Health insurance, under age 65 Private 62.6 0.5 * * 60.4 0.7 66.4 0.9 68.6 2.8
Public 58.3 0.3 57.9 4.0 57.1 0.4 61.9 0.7 63.9 2.2
Uninsured/other 62.3 0.7 * * 61.3 0.8 66.3 1.6 * *
Health insurance, age 65 and over Medicare only 57.0 0.7 * * 56.0 0.8 60.5 1.6 60.0 4.9
Medicare and supplement 58.4 0.4 * * 56.8 0.5 61.9 0.8 65.3 2.5
Residence location Metropolitan 61.0 0.3 58.0 3.8 59.5 0.4 64.1 0.5 66.8 1.7
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 61.9 0.4 65.0 4.8 60.4 0.5 63.6 0.6 66.9 1.7
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 59.6 0.5 * * 58.5 0.5 65.9 1.2 * *
Micropolitan 51.6 0.9 * * 51.5 0.9 * * * *
Noncore 58.7 1.0 * * 58.8 1.0 * * * *
  Noncore, adjacent 59.2 1.2 * * 59.2 1.2 * * * *
  Noncore, rural 56.7 2.2 * * 57.2 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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