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Table 2 Odds ratios for 279 Aboriginal women having breast cancer surgical treatment compared with 26483 non-Aboriginal women

From: Increasing rates of surgical treatment and preventing comorbidities may increase breast cancer survival for Aboriginal women

Covariate(s) adjusted fora

Odds ratiob

95% Confidence interval

p-value

Aboriginal

0.59

0.42-0.86

0.006

+ Age at diagnosis

0.48

0.34-0.70

<0.001

+ Year of diagnosis

0.48

0.34-0.70

<0.001

+ Spread of disease

0.50

0.33-0.78

0.003

+ Place of residence

0.55

0.36-0.86

0.009

+ Comorbiditiesc

0.60

0.39-0.95

0.030

+ Socioeconomic disadvantage

0.60

0.39-0.95

0.031

  1. aCovariates are entered sequentially and categories for each variable are as shown in Table 1. All subsequent models include the covariates from the previous model.
  2. bFor Aboriginal women compared with non-Aboriginal women.
  3. cComorbidities includes the presence or absence of: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic pulmonary disease and any other (non-cancer) comorbidity in the Charlson Comorbidity Index.