Clinical Study
Chemotherapy Administration during Pelvic Radiation for Cervical Cancer Patients Aged ≥ 55 Years in the SEER-Medicare Population
Table 3
Univariate comparison of patients who received chemoradiation treatment versus those who received radiation treatment alone.
| | Chemoradiation () | RT alone () | value* |
| | Age | | | <.001 |
| | Stage | | | .393 | | II | 89 (53.6%) | 124 (56.6%) | | | III | 74 (44.6%) | 89 (40.6%) | | | IVA | 3 (1.8%) | 6 (2.7%) | |
| | Histology | | | .628 | | Squamous | 129 (77.7%) | 160 (73.1%) | | | Adenocarcinoma | 23 (13.8%) | 32 (14.6%) | | | Adenosquamous | 4 (2.4%) | 9 (4.1%) | | | Other | 10 (6.0%) | 18 (8.2%) | |
| | Race | | | .445 | | Caucasian | 97 (58.4%) | 140 (63.9%) | | | African-American | 34 (20.5%) | 40 (18.3%) | | | Hispanic | 6 (3.6%) | 9 (4.1%) | | | Asian | 14 (8.4%) | 20 (9.1%) | | | Other | 15 (9.0%) | 10 (4.6%) | |
| | Location | | | .028 | | Big metropolitan (≥250,000) | 88 (53.0%) | 147 (67.1%) | | | Metropolitan (20,000 to 249,999) | 44 (26.5%) | 50 (22.8%) | | | Urban (2,500–19,999, adjacent metro area) | 11 (6.6%) | 6 (2.7%) | | | Less urban (2,500–19,999, not adjacent metro area) | 19 (11.4%) | 13 (5.9%) | | | Rural (<2,500) | 4 (2.4%) | 3 (1.4%) | |
| | Socioeconomic status (median income per census tract) | $44,308 ± $1,512 | $44,715 ± $1,614 | .858 |
| | Comorbidity index, Charlson | | | .641 | | 0 | 116 (69.9%) | 158 (72.1%) | | | 1 | 31 (18.7%) | 32 (14.6%) | | | 2 | 10 (6.0%) | 18 (8.2%) | | | 3+ | 9 (5.4%) | 11 (5.0%) | |
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*Student's t-test or chi-square for frequency data.
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