Table 1.
Characteristics of breast cancer survivors expressing possible desire for future biological children at baseline and/or year 1 (N = 100).
| Participant characteristics | Number of participants |
|---|---|
| Age at cancer diagnosis, years | |
| 18–40 | 90 |
| 41–45 | 9 |
| > 45 | 1 |
| Race | |
| White | 92 |
| Non-white or choose not to disclose | 8 |
| Ethnicity | |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 96 |
| Hispanic or Latino or choose not to disclose | 4 |
| Nodal disease at diagnosis | |
| N0 or NX | 72 |
| N1–N3 | 28 |
| Metastatic disease at diagnosis | |
| M0 or MX | 98 |
| M1 | 2 |
| ER status | |
| ER positive | 81 |
| ER negative/missing | 19 |
| Chemotherapy | |
| Yes | 68 |
| No | 32 |
| Radiation therapy | |
| Yes | 45 |
| No/missing | 55 |
| Surgical status | |
| Mastectomy | 78 |
| Breast-conserving surgery | 20 |
| No surgery or missing | 2 |
| Endocrine therapy | |
| Yes | 61 |
| No/missing | 39 |
| Education | |
| High school degree and/or vocational education | 5 |
| Some college, associate degree, or bachelor’s degree | 46 |
| Graduate school | 31 |
| Missing | 18 |
| Marital status | |
| Married or living with partner | 63 |
| Separated, divorced, widowed, or never married | 24 |
| Missing | 17 |
| Menopausal status | |
| Periods have stopped | 5 |
| Periods have not stopped | 59 |
| Not sure/missing | 36 |
| Pregnancy history | |
| Previously pregnant | 40 |
| Pregnancy resulting in ≥ 1 live birth(s) | 31 |
| Never been pregnant/missing | 60 |
For marital status, some respondents selected more than one option. Education history, marital status, menopausal status, and pregnancy history were self-reported on the baseline survey.