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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 1_1_4.2c
Women under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy to the breast within 1 year of diagnosis, by family income,a United States, 2006
    Total Negative/poor Near poor/low Middle High
Population group Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total   75.2 0.3 65.7 4.7 75.1 0.3 75.7 0.5 76.2 1.4
Age Under age 40 68.1 1.2 DSU DSU 67.5 1.5 69.4 2.3 DSU DSU
40–49 73.5 0.5 DSU DSU 73.8 0.7 72.6 1.0 76.7 2.6
50–59 75.5 0.4 DSU DSU 75.0 0.6 76.5 0.8 74.7 2.3
60–69 77.4 0.5 DSU DSU 77.4 0.6 78.6 0.9 78.8 2.4
Health insurance, under age 65 Private 76.0 0.4 DSU DSU 76.3 0.5 75.8 0.6 76.9 1.6
Public only 74.6 0.6 DSU DSU 74.0 0.7 77.8 1.2 80.0 3.9
Uninsured/other 73.6 0.6 DSU DSU 73.8 0.7 73.9 1.2 70.3 3.7
Health insurance, ages 65–70 Medicare only 70.6 2.0 DSU DSU 70.1 2.5 76.1 4.0 DSU DSU
Medicare and supplement 79.5 0.8 DSU DSU 79.2 1.0 81.4 1.6 DSU DSU
Residence location Metropolitan 74.8 0.3 DSU DSU 74.3 0.4 75.8 0.5 76.5 1.4
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 73.5 0.4 DSU DSU 71.2 0.6 75.8 0.6 76.5 1.4
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 77.4 0.5 DSU DSU 77.9 0.6 75.4 1.1 DSU DSU
Micropolitan 78.4 0.9 DSU DSU 78.6 0.9 72.8 4.2 DSU DSU
Noncore 78.9 1.1 DSU DSU 79.0 1.1 DSU DSU DSU DSU
  Noncore, adjacent 80.2 1.2 DSU DSU 80.3 1.2 DSU DSU DSU DSU
  Noncore, rural 74.7 2.3 DSU DSU 74.7 2.4 DSU DSU DSU DSU

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.

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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