Table 3.
Other Treatment-Related Variables
| Variable | % of Patients |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| African American | White | ||
| ≥ one episode of neutropenic fever | 8 | 11 | .17 |
| ≥ one course of G-CSF | 7 | 6 | .74 |
| Reasons for treatment delay/discontinuation* | |||
| ≥ one delay as a result of toxicity | 64 | 66 | .68 |
| ≥ one delay as a result of insufficient laboratory counts | 63 | 65 | .51 |
| ≥ one delay as a result of missed appointment† | 19 | 9 | .0002 |
Abbreviation: G-CSF, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor.
*
Patients may have experienced delays as a result of multiple reasons, so the sum of the subcategory values exceeds 100%.
†
Missed appointment as a result of any reason, including logistics (eg, transportation), scheduling conflicts, and patient refusal.