Table 2 Patients’ characteristics and clinicopathologic features (age > 14).

From: Racial Differences in Four Leukemia Subtypes: Comprehensive Descriptive Epidemiology

 

ALL

CLL

AML

CML

HW

NHW

BL

API

HW

NHW

BL

API

HW

NHW

BL

API

HW

NHW

BL

API

Sample

1438

2705

332

466

1285

24620

1835

718

2393

16565

1747

2224

1156

7874

974

864

Gender

Male

58.9

57.5

53

55.6

57.1

59.5

57.8

62.3

53.4

54.7

49.1

51.7

58.7

58

56.9

61.7

Female

41.1

42.5

47

44.4

42.9

40.5

42.2

37.7

46.6

45.3

50.9

48.3

41.3

42

43.1

38.3

p-value

0.24

0.06

<0.01

0.28

Age at diagnosis

15–34

55.2

30.8

38.3

35.4

0.5

0.2

0.4

0.4

24.1

6.2

11

12.4

20.8

6

13.1

14.6

35–54

24.9

24.7

30.4

28.5

13.1

10.4

14.9

14.5

26.7

15.8

25.4

23.4

34.4

19.4

31.4

29.7

≥55

19.9

44.5

31.3

36.1

86.4

89.3

84.6

85.1

49.1

78

63.6

64.2

44.8

74.7

55.4

55.7

p-value

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

Diagnosis era

1992–2001

43.3

54.1

46.7

46.4

45.4

50.4

50.9

41.2

47.3

54.5

50.1

47.7

51.4

55.3

52.5

51.3

2002–2011

56.7

45.9

53.3

53.6

54.6

49.6

49.1

58.8

52.7

45.5

49.9

52.3

48.6

44.7

47.5

48.7

p-value

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

0.012

Treatment

No radiation

75.8

77.4

80.1

75.1

96.9

97.2

97.5

94.6

92.1

94.2

95.1

92.8

92.8

94.8

96

92.6

Radiation

22.7

20.8

17.8

22.1

0.9

0.7

0.8

0.6

6.1

4

3.3

5.6

5.2

3.1

2.5

4.4

Unknown**

1.5

1.7

2.1

2.8

2.3

2.2

1.6

4.9

1.7

1.9

1.6

1.6

2

2.1

1.5

3

p-value

0.3

0.7

<0.01

<0.01

Registry

West

91.8

55

45.5

89.9

90

57.1

44

95.1

88.3

54.9

44.6

94.1

90

56

41.5

92.9

Northeast

4

12.7

6.9

3.6

4.6

11.3

6.3

0.8

5.8

12

7.4

1.3

4.9

10.7

6.2

1.5

Midwest

1.6

25.5

21.1

3

3.4

27.4

32.6

3.3

3.3

27.2

29.1

2.3

2.8

28.6

30.8

3.6

South

2.6

6.8

26.5

3.4

2

4.3

17.2

0.7

2.7

5.9

18.9

2.3

2.3

4.7

21.6

2

p-value

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

Cancer history

No

92.7

84.6

87.7

89.9

75.8

69.3

68.9

74.9

85.5

75

76.9

83.3

88.4

76.7

80.4

83.4

Yes

7.3

15.4

12.3

10.1

24.2

30.7

31.1

25.1

14.5

25

23.1

16.7

11.6

23.3

19.6

16.6

p-value

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

            

Survival (months)

34 ± 43.8

35.6 ± 50.5

24.3 ± 35.1

36.7 ± 49.5

53.1 ± 48.3

59.3 ± 50.4

50.6 ± 44.7

55.6 ± 51.2

25.6 ± 42.7

17.5 ± 36.2

18.7 ± 37

22.3 ± 40.9

49.2 ± 49.9

40.6 ± 46.3

42.8 ± 45.9

47.9 ± 49.9

p-value

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

<0.01

Histology type

Precursor cell LL,NOS

53.5

64.9

61.7

58.8

            

Precursor B-cell LL

39.4

24.9

23.8

28.1

            

Precursor T-cell LL

3

3.6

7.8

7.7

            

Acute ML NOS

        

51.5

60.7

61.5

56.6

    

Acute PL

        

14.7

6

8.3

7.5

    

Acute MML

        

10.4

10.4

9.9

9.5

    

Chronic ML NOS

            

72.2

63.7

73.7

67.1

Chronic MGL

            

13.2

7.7

10.8

11.6

Chronic MML,NOS

            

14.4

28.3

15.3

20.5

Others&

4.2

6.6

6.6

5.4

    

23.5

22.8

20.3

26.4

0.2

0.3

0.2

0.8

p-value

<0.01

    

<0.01

<0.01

  1. Cancers diagnosed in the period of 1992–2011 in the SEER 13 database. For a continuous variable, mean ± SD; For a categorical variable, percentage.
  2. LL: lymphoblastic leukemia; ML: myeloid leukemia; PL: promyelocytic leukemia; MML: myelomonocytic leukemia; MGL: chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR/ABL positive.
  3. &&This category contains other minor histologic types, which are not included when calculating p-values.