Regional differences in recommended cancer treatment for the elderly

Table 3 Adjusted odds of receiving recommended treatment by hospital referral region

	All stages colon cancer with colorectal Resection 12+ nodes	Regional colon cancer with chemotherapy	Regional rectal cancer with radiation therapy	Regional rectal cancer with postoperative chemotherapy	Favorable non-metastatic prostate cancer without treatment	Unfavorable non-metastatic prostate cancer with any treatment	Locoregional resectable pancreatic cancer with resection
Treatment Rate	48 %	54 %	61 %	48 %	21 %	88 %	41 %
Hospital referral region
Abilene	1.1	1.7	0.5	7.7 (<0.01)	1.6 (0.03)	0.71	1.9
Amarillo	1.7 (0.02)	1.5	1.7	1	2.4 (<0.01)	0.2 (<0.01)	2.2
Austin	1.5	1	0.8	1	0.6 (0.01)	1.7	0.7
Beaumont	0.6 (0.05)	0.8	1.9	2.6	1.9	0.6	1
Bryan	1.7 (0.02)	1.9 (0.03)	(omitted)	(omitted)	1.4	1.1	0.5
Corpus Christi	0.6 (<0.01)	1	2.5	0.8	1.2	1.2	1.3
Dallas	0.9	0.9	1.3	0.8	0.8	1	1
El Paso	1.2	0.9	3.3 (0.04)	(omitted)	1.1	0.7	0.4 (0.02)
Fort Worth	1.4 (0.01)	1	1	1.6	1.1	0.5	1.2
Harlingen	0.6 (<0.01)	1.8 (0.03)	1.2	0.7	0.3 (0.04)	2.7	0.8
Houston	1.1	1	1	0.7	1	0.8	1
Longview	1.4	2	1.2	1.3	0.9	1.2	0.5
Lubbock	1	1.9 (<0.01)	0.9	1	1	1	1.2
McAllen	0.5 (<0.01)	3.0 (<0.01)	2	0.9	1.3	1	0.9
Odessa	1.3 (0.05)	1	2.2	1.6	0.8	2.6	2.6
San Angelo	0.8	0.8	1.5	4.3 (<0.01)	2.1 (<0.01)	0.4	4.5
San Antonio	1.2	1	0.9	0.6	1.8 (<0.01)	0.3 (0.01)	0.3 (<0.01)
Temple	0.6	1.2	0.7	3	1.6 (0.02)	0.6	1.1
Tyler	1.3	1.2	1.7	1.4	1.7	0.9	1.4
Victoria	0.5 (<0.01)	2.0 (<0.01)	1.1	6.57 (<0.01)	0.6 (<0.01)	1	0.7
Waco	0.7 (0.04)	0.9	1	1.2	0.8	0.8	0.6
Wichita Falls	2.3 (<0.01)	1.5	1	1.9	0.5 (0.01)	1.5	1.1
Sample Size	5809	2009	668	518	5220	5978	673

Numbers in parentheses are p-values. Bolded coefficients have p-values less than 0.05. For ease of reading, p-values greater than 0.05 are not reported

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