Does Survival Vary for Breast Cancer Patients in the United States? A Study from Six Randomly Selected States

Table 1

Age at diagnosis and survival time for female breast cancer patients ().

	Statistics	California	Connecticut	Georgia	Hawaii	Iowa	New Mexico
Age at diagnosis (years)	Mean	61.42	62.51	57.97	59.72	64.14	61.30
	SE	0.564	0.320	0.313	0.305	0.324	0.316
	Median	60	62	57	59	65	61
	Quartiles	50, 60, 71	51, 62, 74	48, 57, 68	49, 59, 70	53, 65, 76	51, 61, 72
Survival time (months)	Mean	181.12	165.18	155.13	119.01	152.76	189.09
	SE	17.882	16.489	15.739	5.394	14.115	20.414
	Median	96	87	84	91	88	83
	Quartiles	41, 96, 175	35, 87, 167	34, 84, 158	37, 91, 167	38, 88, 167	33, 83, 158