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Table 2 Proportion of IBC out of all breast cancers by race and registry

From: Characterizing inflammatory breast cancer among Arab Americans in the California, Detroit and New Jersey Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) registries (1988–2008)

Race

All Breast Cancer

IBC

%IBC

p-value

All Races combined

621,465

9,135

1.47%

-

NHW

462,717

6,035

1.30%

<0.0001

NHB

49,980

1,085

2.17%

Hispanic

61,062

1,415

2.32%

Arab-American

5,539

94

1.70%

Asian

37,085

449

1.21%

American Indian/Alaskan

652

19

2.91%

Other

506

6

1.19%

Unknown

3,924

32

0.82%

New Jersey Registry

135,764

1,333

0.98%

<0.0001

Detroit Registry

60,412

808

1.34%

California Registry

425,289

6,994

1.64%

  1. *P-value from chi square test.