Table 1.

Characteristics of Sample Patients (N = 230)

Characteristic	No. of Patients		%
Sex
Male	125		54
Female	105		46
Age, years
Mean		56.8
SD		12.1
Race/ethnicity
White	140		61
Black	44		19
Hispanic	39		17
Asian	5		2
Other	2		1
Education, years
Mean		12.4
SD		4.1
Health insurance	144		63
Recruitment site
Yale	119		52
Parkland	91		40
VACCC	11		5
Simmons	9		4
Diagnosis information
Lung cancer	57		25
Colorectal cancer	33		14
Breast cancer	18		8
Pancreatic cancer	18		8
Other*	104		45
Metastatic disease	189		82
Zubrod performance score
0	30		13
1	107		47
2	57		25
3	29		13
4	7		3

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; VACCC, Veterans' Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System Comprehensive Cancer Clinics.

^*The remaining patients had cancer types representing < 5% of the sample.