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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 1_1_4.1
Women under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy to the breast within 1 year of diagnosis, United States, 1999 and 2006
    2006b 1999
Population group Percent SE Percent SE
Total   75.2 0.3 73.7 0.2
Age Under age 40 68.1 1.2 68.2 0.8
40–49 73.5 0.5 71.7 0.4
50–59 75.5 0.4 74.4 0.3
60–69 77.4 0.5 75.6 0.3
Race American Indian/Alaska Native 81.0 5.0 72.5 4.3
Asian 72.5 1.6 73.2 1.3
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander DSU DSU DSU DSU
Black only 68.5 0.9 68.8 0.7
White only 76.5 0.3 74.6 0.2
Ethnicity Hispanic, all races 61.6 1.3 65.4 1.1
Non-Hispanic, other 73.3 1.6 73.7 1.2
Non-Hispanic, Black 68.6 0.9 68.9 0.7
Non-Hispanic, White 77.4 0.3 75.1 0.2
Health insurance, under age 65 Private 76.0 0.4 75.3 0.3
Public only 74.6 0.6 72.9 0.5
Uninsured/other 73.6 0.6 72.2 0.3
Health insurance, ages 65–70 Medicare only 70.6 2.0 72.4 1.1
Medicare and supplement 79.5 0.8 76.2 0.7
Family incomea Negative/poor 65.7 4.7 69.7 3.4
Near poor/low 75.1 0.3 74.0 0.2
Middle 75.7 0.5 73.1 0.4
High 76.2 1.4 71.8 1.0
Residence location Metropolitan 74.8 0.3 73.2 0.2
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 73.5 0.4 71.4 0.3
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 77.4 0.5 76.7 0.4
Micropolitan 78.4 0.9 75.8 0.7
Noncore 78.9 1.1 75.0 0.8
  Noncore, adjacent 80.2 1.2 75.1 1.0
  Noncore, rural 74.7 2.3 74.8 1.7

a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over. Family income is based on median ZIP Code income as of Census 2000.

b Concordance computed for diagnosis months January-June 2006.

DSU - 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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