Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics of Breast Cancer and Lymphoma Survivors Treated Either With Chemotherapy or Local Therapy Only
| Chemotherapy
|
Local Therapy
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer (n = 141)
|
Lymphoma (n = 66)
|
Breast Cancer (n = 294)
|
Lymphoma (n = 37)
|
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| Characteristic | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | Overall Therapy P |
| Male, % | 0 | 0.0 | 30 | 45.5 | 3 | 1.0 | 18 | 48.7 | .002 |
| Age, years | |||||||||
| Mean | 57.0 | 55.8 | 65.8 | 50.4 | < .0001 | ||||
| SD | 10.1 | 13.5 | 9.1 | 12.8 | |||||
| Education | |||||||||
| Less than college | 59 | 41.8 | 34 | 52.3 | 126 | 42.9 | 15 | 40.5 | .56 |
| At least some college | 82 | 58.2 | 31 | 47.7 | 168 | 57.1 | 22 | 59.5 | |
| Years since last treatment | |||||||||
| Mean | 8.2 | 9.9 | 10.5 | 12.8 | < .0001 | ||||
| SD | 4.3 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 6.5 | |||||
| White, % | 137 | 97.2 | 64 | 97.0 | 293 | 99.7 | 37 | 100.0 | .01 |
| Marital status | |||||||||
| Never married | 7 | 5.0 | 3 | 4.6 | 8 | 2.7 | 2 | 5.4 | .02 |
| Married/cohabitating | 108 | 76.6 | 49 | 74.2 | 192 | 65.3 | 30 | 81.1 | |
| Widowed/divorced/separated | 26 | 18.4 | 14 | 21.2 | 94 | 32.0 | 5 | 13.5 | |
| AJCC stage | < .001* | ||||||||
| 0 | 14 | 10.2 | 26 | 42.6 | 71 | 24.9 | 16 | 47.1 | |
| I | 31 | 22.6 | 5 | 8.2 | 173 | 60.7 | 8 | 23.5 | |
| II | 82 | 59.9 | 14 | 23.0 | 38 | 13.3 | 7 | 20.6 | |
| III | 9 | 6.6 | 8 | 13.1 | 3 | 1.1 | 2 | 5.9 | |
| IV | 1 | 0.7 | 8 | 13.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.9 | |
| Unknown | 4 | — | 5 | — | 9 | — | 3 | — | |
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer.
*
Comparison of stages 0 to II combined with III and IV combined, excluding unknowns.