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Table 1 Demographics

From: The need to study rural cancer outcome disparities at the local level: a retrospective cohort study in Kansas and Missouri

Variable

Level

Rural

Urban

p-value

  

n = 3014

n = 21,393

 

Race (%)

White

2862 (95.0)

18,752 (87.7)

< 0.001

Black

50 (1.7)

1935 (9.0)

 

Other

102 (3.4)

706 (3.3)

 

Insurance (%)

Other

1348 (44.7)

10,191 (47.6)

0.001

No Insurance

49 (1.6)

234 (1.1)

 

Public

1617 (53.6)

10,968 (51.3)

 

Marriage Status (%)

Married

2082 (69.1)

13,501 (63.1)

< 0.001

Never Married

420 (13.9)

3387 (15.8)

 

Separated or Divorced

231 (7.7)

2286 (10.7)

 

Widowed

281 (9.3)

2219 (10.4)

 

Class of Case (%)

Diagnosed at KUMC

845 (28.0)

6923 (32.4)

< 0.001

Diagnosed Elsewhere

2169 (72.0)

14,470 (67.6)

 

First Malignancy (%)

One Primary Ever

2417 (80.2)

16,748 (78.3)

0.018

More Than One Primary

597 (19.8)

4645 (21.7)

 

Age (median [IQR])

 

63.00 [55.00, 70.00]

63.00 [55.00, 71.00]

0.014

Cancer (%)

Oral

295 (9.8)

1394 (6.5)

< 0.001

Colon

186 (6.2)

1289 (6.0)

 

Lung

354 (11.7)

3485 (16.3)

 

Melanoma

253 (8.4)

1499 (7.0)

 

Breast

601 (19.9)

6925 (32.4)

 

Corpus Uteri

144 (4.8)

1065 (5.0)

 

Prostate

515 (17.1)

2286 (10.7)

 

Bladder

166 (5.5)

927 (4.3)

 

Kidney

341 (11.3)

1309 (6.1)

 

NHL - Nodal

159 (5.3)

1214 (5.7)

 

Stage

No stage

603 (20.0)

3898 (18.2)

< 0.001

0/1

904 (30.0)

7485 (35.0)

 

2

582 (19.3)

3541 (16.6)

 

3

414 (13.7)

2740 (12.8)

 

4

511 (17.0)

3729 (17.4)

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