2007 National Healthcare Quality Report: Data Tables Appendix--Table 1.18

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Table 1.18
Patients with colon cancer who received recommended treatment: resected colon specimen had at least 12 regional lymph nodes pathologically examined, United States, 2003 and 2004

Population group		2004		2003
Population group		Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
Total		55.0	0.3	51.6	0.3
Anatomic Location	Right	63.5	0.4	60.4	0.4
	Transverse	52.5	0.9	47.3	0.9
	Sigmoid	44.5	0.4	41.0	0.4
Age	Under age 40	73.3	1.8	70.3	1.9
	40-49	66.5	1.0	64.2	1.1
	50-59	57.4	0.7	55.1	0.7
	60-69	54.5	0.6	51.1	0.6
	70-79	53.6	0.5	49.9	0.5
	80 and over	51.6	0.6	48.2	0.5
Race	American Indian/Alaska Native	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Asian	59.8	1.7	56.7	1.7
	Hawaiian Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	53.8	0.8	52.2	0.8
	White only	54.9	0.3	51.3	0.3
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	56.2	1.3	52.8	1.3
	Non-Hispanic, other	59.6	1.6	56.2	1.7
	Non-Hispanic, Black	53.8	0.8	51.9	0.8
	Non-Hispanic, White	54.8	0.3	51.1	0.3
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	57.8	0.5	56.0	0.6
	Public only	53.1	0.3	49.4	0.3
	Uninsured/other	59.1	0.7	54.4	0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	52.1	0.7	48.2	0.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and supplement	53.2	0.4	49.3	0.4
Family income^a	Negative/poor	54.6	3.5	58.3	3.3
	Near poor/low	53.4	0.3	50.4	0.3
	Middle	59.1	0.5	54.9	0.6
	High	62.1	1.7	55.7	1.7
Residence location	Fringe metro, more than 1 million	57.2	0.4	53.6	0.4
	Metro, 0.25-1 million	56.4	0.6	53.6	0.6
	Metro, less than 0.25 million	49.5	0.8	46.8	0.8
	Non-metro, urban	49.3	0.7	45.9	0.7
	Completely rural	55.6	1.9	49.0	2.0
Residence location	Metropolitan	56.0	0.3	52.7	0.3
	Large metropolitan, more than 1 million	57.2	0.4	53.6	0.4
	Small metropolitan, less than 1 million	54.0	0.5	51.2	0.5
	Micropolitan	47.7	0.9	44.1	0.9
	Noncore	53.2	1.0	49.1	1.0
	Noncore, adjacent	52.5	1.2	49.3	1.2
	Noncore, rural	55.8	2.2	48.1	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.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Source: Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons and American Cancer Society, National Cancer Data Base.