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In previous analyses with a larger variety of health plans, HMO members were considerably more likely to receive BCS in San Francisco and in Seattle [ 19 ] . Medicare and Medicaid patients received more BCS in a North Carolina hospital [ 7 ] . However, a study using administrative data [ 38 ] described lower BCS use among Medicaid patients and treatment was similar by health plan [ 39 ] in Northern California.
In addition to stage at diagnosis and size of tumor, we examined several other variables that were possible determinants in the utilization of BCS vs. mastectomy in early stage breast cancer, including age at diagnosis, ethnicity, island of residence, and marital status.
Women residing on Oahu were considerably more likely to have BCS than women living on all other islands in the state.
In particular, we were not able to examine the treatment of women 80 years and older who have been described as receiving more BCS than women age 65 to 79 years [ 13 ] . Our findings of lower BCS in smaller and well differentiated tumors agree with previous studies [ 33 ] , but the absence of an effect of comorbid conditions disagrees with a study in older women [ 13 ] that showed a higher rate of BCS in women with comorbidities.
In contrast to our results, a number of studies have shown that the likelihood of BCS decreases with increasing age [ 11 30 33 ] , possibly due to less concern about cosmetic results.