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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

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, 2006
    Total Negative/poor Near poor/low Middle High
Population group Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total   66.8 0.3 68.4 3.2 66.0 0.3 69.5 0.5 70.2 1.6
Anatomic location Right 74.8 0.3 DSU DSU 74.3 0.4 76.3 0.7 76.8 2.1
Transverse 63.1 0.8 DSU DSU 62.1 1.0 65.6 1.7 DSU DSU
Sigmoid 57.1 0.4 DSU DSU 55.8 0.5 61.5 0.9 61.6 2.7
Age Under age 40 84.1 1.4 DSU DSU 83.6 1.8 86.6 2.6 DSU DSU
40–49 75.1 0.9 DSU DSU 73.7 1.2 78.7 1.8 DSU DSU
50–59 68.7 0.6 DSU DSU 68.2 0.7 71.3 1.3 64.9 4.2
60–69 66.3 0.5 DSU DSU 65.5 0.6 69.9 1.1 68.7 3.6
70–79 65.8 0.5 DSU DSU 64.8 0.6 69.5 1.0 68.8 3.2
80 and over 64.0 0.5 DSU DSU 63.8 0.6 64.1 1.1 73.0 2.9
Health insurance, under age 65 Private 69.8 0.5 DSU DSU 68.7 0.6 73.3 0.9 68.2 2.9
Public only 65.4 0.3 66.9 3.8 64.8 0.4 67.2 0.7 70.4 2.1
Uninsured/other 68.2 0.7 DSU DSU 67.5 0.8 71.7 1.6 DSU DSU
Health insurance, age 65 and over Medicare only 64.4 0.8 DSU DSU 64.1 0.9 65.8 1.7 DSU DSU
Medicare and supplement 65.2 0.4 DSU DSU 64.4 0.5 67.2 0.8 70.5 2.3
Residence location Metropolitan 67.9 0.3 69.9 3.5 67.1 0.3 69.6 0.5 70.4 1.6
  Large metropolitan, more than 1 million 68.5 0.4 69.2 4.3 67.8 0.5 69.4 0.6 70.5 1.7
  Small metropolitan, less than 1 million 66.8 0.4 DSU DSU 66.3 0.5 70.3 1.1 DSU DSU
Micropolitan 60.1 0.9 DSU DSU 59.9 0.9 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Noncore 66.1 1.0 DSU DSU 66.2 1.0 DSU DSU DSU DSU
  Noncore, adjacent 66.5 1.1 DSU DSU 66.6 1.1 DSU DSU DSU DSU
  Noncore, rural 64.7 2.0 DSU DSU 64.8 2.0 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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