Table 1.
Sociodemographic and disease characteristics of women with and without recurrence of breast cancer. Results are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise
| Variable
|
Recurrence
|
Log rank (df)
|
P value
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n=54)
|
No (n=148)
|
|||
| Age (years): | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 47.7 (8.54) | 48.7 (7.55) | ||
| ⩽49 | 28 (52) | 66 (45) | 1.6 (1) | 0.2 |
| ⩾50 | 26 (48) | 82 (55) | ||
| Social class: | ||||
| Professional or intermediate | 19 (35) | 56 (38) | 0.3 (1) | 0.6 |
| Other | 35 (65) | 92 (62) | ||
| Marital status: | ||||
| Single | 4 (7) | 14 (9) | 1.5 (3) | 0.6 |
| Married or cohabiting | 42 (78) | 109 (74) | ||
| Divorced or separated | 5 (9) | 20 (14) | ||
| Widowed | 3 (6) | 5 (3) | ||
| No of axillary nodes infiltrated with tumour: | ||||
| None | 14 (26) | 67 (45) | 10.6 (3) | 0.01† |
| 1-3 | 21 (39) | 61 (41) | ||
| 4-9 | 12 (22) | 17 (12) | ||
| ⩾10 | 7 (13) | 3 (2) | ||
| Histology: | ||||
| Ductal I | 0 (0) | 28 (19) | 22.6 (5) | 0.0004† |
| Ductal II | 13 (24) | 40 (27) | ||
| Ductal III | 29 (54) | 35 (24) | ||
| Lobular | 7 (13) | 18 (12) | ||
| Medullary/tubular/mucoid | 0 (0) | 7 (5) | ||
| Other or ungraded | 5 (9) | 20 (13) | ||
| Tumour size*: | ||||
| <2 cm | 20 (37) | 74 (50) | 1.9 (2) | 0.4 |
| 2-5 cm | 27 (50) | 60 (40) | ||
| >5 cm | 5 (10) | 10 (7) | ||
| Depression before diagnosis: | ||||
| Yes | 3 (6) | 10 (7) | 0.1 (1) | 0.7 |
| No | 51 (94) | 138 (93) | ||
| Severe life event before diagnosis: | ||||
| Yes | 25 (46) | 65 (44) | 0.0 (1) | 1.0 |
| No | 29 (54) | 83 (56) | ||
*
No data for two patients with recurrence; four patients without recurrence.
†
P<0.05 for the log rank test indicates that there is a significant difference in time to recurrence between women with different categories of the variable.