Table 1_1_4_2b

2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 1_1_4.2b
Women under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy to the breast within 1 year of diagnosis, by ethnicity, 2008^a
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
				Non-Hispanic
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		78.8	0.3	79.7	0.3	80.7	0.3	73.7	0.9	63.0	1.3
Age	Under age 40	69.7	1.3	70.0	1.4	72.3	1.6	65.2	3.1	64.6	4.0
	40-49	77.8	0.5	78.6	0.6	80.1	0.6	71.5	1.7	64.1	2.4
	50-59	79.0	0.4	80.2	0.5	81.1	0.5	75.4	1.4	58.9	2.4
	60-69	80.7	0.4	81.1	0.4	81.7	0.5	76.5	1.6	65.9	2.5
Health insurance, under age 65	Private	79.6	0.3	80.3	0.4	81.2	0.4	74.6	1.2	65.0	1.9
	Public only	77.0	0.5	78.0	0.6	79.4	0.6	72.5	1.6	61.7	2.2
	Uninsured/other	78.9	0.6	79.8	0.7	80.9	0.7	73.3	2.1	60.5	3.3
Health insurance, ages 65-70	Medicare only	76.4	1.9	76.9	2.1	76.1	2.3	79.6	5.8	DSU	DSU
Health insurance, ages 65-70	Medicare and supplement	82.7	0.7	82.8	0.8	83.3	0.8	76.4	3.4	72.3	4.9
Family income^b	Negative/poor	72.7	4.3	71.8	4.9	75.0	7.7	70.6	6.4	DSU	DSU
	Near poor/low	78.5	0.3	79.5	0.4	80.8	0.4	74.2	1.0	60.9	1.6
	Middle	79.6	0.5	80.0	0.5	80.7	0.5	70.7	2.3	68.9	2.8
	High	81.3	1.3	81.8	1.3	81.8	1.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Residence location^c	Metropolitan	78.4	0.3	79.3	0.3	80.4	0.3	73.1	0.9	62.9	1.4
	Large metropolitan	77.2	0.4	78.1	0.4	79.7	0.4	70.4	1.1	64.7	1.6
	Small metropolitan	80.5	0.5	81.4	0.5	81.6	0.5	80.4	1.6	58.3	2.7
	Micropolitan	82.3	0.8	82.6	0.9	83.0	0.9	81.3	3.7	62.5	7.7
	Noncore	81.8	1.0	82.0	1.1	82.7	1.1	79.2	4.1	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, adjacent	82.9	1.2	82.7	1.2	83.5	1.3	78.9	4.3	DSU	DSU
	Noncore, rural	77.9	2.5	79.1	2.6	79.7	2.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

^a. Data include January-June 2008.

^b. Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just over 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.� Family income is based on median ZIP Code income as of Census 2000.

^c. Large metropolitan includes areas with a population of one million or more; small metropolitan includes areas with a population less than one million.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons and American Cancer Society, National Cancer Data Base.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 1_1_4_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/1_cancer/T1_1_4_2b.html