Table 2 Estimated 15-Year Overlapping Weight Adjusted Risks* of All-Cause and Colorectal Cancer Specific Mortalities Comparing Patients Residing vs. Not Residing in a Persistently Impoverished Census Tract, Patients with Colorectal Cancer, The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER), 2006–2020 (n = 256,430).

From: Neighborhood level socioeconomic disparities are associated with reduced colorectal cancer survival

Follow-Up (Years)

Adjusted Cumulative Risk (%) (95%CI)

Adjusted Risk Difference† (%) (95%CI)

Adjusted Risk Ratio‡ (95%CI)

Persistent Poverty Census Tract

Not Persistent Poverty Census Tract

 

All-Cause Mortality

1

11.1 (10.7 to 11.4)

9.1 (9.0 to 9.3)

1.9 (1.6 to 2.3)

1.21 (1.17 to 1.25)

5

35.6 (35.0 to 36.3)

31.1 (30.8 to 31.4)

4.5 (3.8 to 5.2)

1.14 (1.12 to 1.17)

10

53.2 (52.5 to 54.1)

47.8 (47.4 to 48.2)

5.4 (4.6 to 6.3)

1.11 (1.10 to 1.13)

15

68.5 (67.2 to 70.0)

61.3 (60.7 to 61.9)

7.2 (5.9 to 8.7)

1.12 (1.10 to 1.14)

 

Colorectal Cancer Specific Mortality

1

6.5 (6.2 to 6.8)

5.5 (5.4 to 5.7)

0.9 (0.6 to 1.2)

1.16 (1.11 to 1.23)

5

21.1 (20.6 to 21.8)

18.6 (18.4 to 18.9)

2.5 (1.9 to 3.1)

1.13 (1.10 to 1.17)

10

28.3 (27.5 to 29.1)

25.4 (25.1 to 25.7)

2.9 (2.1 to 3.7)

1.11 (1.08 to 1.15)

15

30.3 (29.3 to 31.4)

27.4 (27.0 to 27.8)

2.9 (1.9 to 3.9)

1.10 (1.07 to 1.14)

  1. *Adjusted using overlapping weights estimated using sex, age, race-ethnicity, marital status at diagnosis, year of diagnosis, census urban-area categorization, colorectal cancer histological type, seer summary stage, AJCC staging, TNM-N, TNM-T, tumor location, tumor size, and total number of in situ/malignant tumors.
  2. †Difference between residing and not residing in a persistently impoverished census tract.
  3. ‡Comparing those residing vs. not residing in a persistently impoverished census tract.
  4. CI confidence interval.
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