Frequency of Surgery in Black Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Table 1

Patient, disease, and treatment characteristics among whites and blacks ().

Variable	Categories	Whites ( = 13046)	Blacks ( = 688)	value
Sex	Male	10159 (78%)	507 (74%)	0.010
	Female	2887 (22%)	181 (26%)
Mean age in year (95% CI)		70.2 (70.0–70.4)	66.6 (65.6–67.6)	<0.0001
Overall stage	Localized	1449 (11%)	75 (11%)	0.002
	Regional	2155 (16%)	91 (13%)
	Distant	7639 (59%)	450 (65%)
	Unknown	1803 (14%)	72 (11%)
Cancer-directed surgery	No	9959 (76%)	563 (82%)	0.001
	Yes	3087 (24%)	125 (18%)
Radiation	No	11387 (87%)	611 (89%)	0.241
	Yes	1659 (13%)	77 (11%)
Therapy	No	8933 (68%)	505 (73%)	0.005
	Surgery only	2454 (19%)	106 (15%)
	Radiation only	1026 (8%)	58 (9%)
	Both surgery and radiation	633 (5%)	19 (3%)
Mean survival in months (95% CI)		15.5 (15.1–15.9)	16.7 (14.5–19.0)	0.899

SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.