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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