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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

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 2006
    2006 2003
Population group Percent SE Percent SE
Total   66.8 0.3 51.7 0.3
Anatomic location Right 74.8 0.3 60.5 0.4
Transverse 63.1 0.8 47.5 0.9
Sigmoid 57.1 0.4 41.0 0.4
Age Under age 40 84.1 1.4 70.2 1.9
40–49 75.1 0.9 64.3 1.1
50–59 68.7 0.6 55.1 0.7
60–69 66.3 0.5 51.2 0.6
70–79 65.8 0.5 49.9 0.5
80 and over 64.0 0.5 48.5 0.5
Race American Indian/Alaska Native 61.3 6.2 55.6 6.3
Asian 69.3 1.5 56.4 1.7
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander DSU DSU DSU DSU
Black only 65.9 0.7 52.4 0.8
White only 66.9 0.3 51.4 0.3
Ethnicity Hispanic, all races 67.1 1.2 52.5 1.3
Non-Hispanic, other 68.8 1.5 55.8 1.7
Non-Hispanic, Black 66.0 0.8 52.2 0.8
Non-Hispanic, White 66.9 0.3 51.4 0.3
Health insurance, under age 65 Private 69.8 0.5 56.2 0.5
Public only 65.4 0.3 49.5 0.3
Uninsured/other 68.2 0.7 54.3 0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over Medicare only 64.4 0.8 48.4 0.7
Medicare and supplement 65.2 0.4 49.4 0.4
Family incomea Negative/poor 68.4 3.2 58.9 3.3
Near poor/low 66.0 0.3 50.5 0.3
Middle 69.5 0.5 55.0 0.6
High 70.2 1.6 56.5 1.7
Residence location Metropolitan 67.9 0.3 52.8 0.3
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 68.5 0.4 53.8 0.4
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 66.8 0.4 51.4 0.5
Micropolitan 60.1 0.9 43.9 0.9
Noncore 66.1 1.0 49.2 1.0
  Noncore, adjacent 66.5 1.1 49.6 1.2
  Noncore, rural 64.7 2.0 48.0 2.3

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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