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Table 2 Clinical characteristics of Cancer Patients by Health Insurance Coverage, from SEER 2007–2016

From: Insurance disparity in cardiovascular mortality among non-elderly cancer survivors

 

Total

Non-Medicaid Insurance

Medicaid

Uninsured

p-Value*

Year of Diagnosis

    

< 0.001

 2007–2010

302,705

242,494 (80.1%)

44,527 (14.7%)

15,684 (5.2%)

 

 2011–2013

230,397

178,237 (77.3%)

39,321 (17.1%)

12,839 (5.6%)

 

 2014–2016

234,953

182,209 (77.5%)

45,053 (19.2%)

7691 (3.3%)

 

Therapy

    

< 0.001

 Radiation therapy

294,652

233,250 (38.7%)

49,626 (38.5%)

11,776 (32.5%)

 

 Chemotherapy

412,782

321,439 (53.3%)

71,491 (55.5%)

19,852 (54.8%)

 

 Surgery

544,696

448,781 (74.4%)

77,056 (59.8%)

18,859 (52.1%)

 

Extent of cancer

    

< 0.001

 in situ

23,904 (3.1%)

20,640 (3.4%)

2302 (1.8%)

962 (2.7%)

 

 Localized

32,536 (42.4%)

272,769 (45.2%)

42,813 (33.2%)

9784 (27.0%)

 

 Regional

220,740 (28.7%)

170,364 (28.3%)

40,222 (31.2%)

10,154 (28.0%)

 

 Distant

198,045 (25.8%)

139,167 (23.1%)

43,564 (33.8)

15,314 (42.3%)

 

Site of cancer

    

< 0.001

 Colorectal

9369 (12.2%)

72,171 (12.0%)

15,352 (11.9%)

6167 (17.0%)

 

 Lung

149,075 (19.4%)

105,051 (17.4%)

33,410 (25.9%)

10,614 (29.3%)

 

 Breast

343,516 (44.7%)

285,563 (47.4%)

49,231 `1

8 .2%)

8722 (24.1%)

 

 Cervical

25,714 (3.4%)

15,329 (2.5%)

8344 (6.5%)

2041 (5.6%)

 

 Ovarian

29,383 (3.8%)

22,891 (3.8%)

4688 (3.6%)

1804 (5.0%)

 

 Urinary/bladder

43,890 (5.7%)

82.60 (6.0%)

5455 (4.2%)

2180 (6.0%)

 

 Hodgkin lymphoma

1498 (2.0%)

11,488 (1.9%)

2458 (1.9%)

1034 (2.9%)

 

 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

67,807 (8.8%)

54,192 (9.0%)

9963 (7.7%)

3652 (10.1%)

 
  1. * p-value were estimated using chi-sq tests