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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Apr 1;17(4):864–871. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0610

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of 12,269 women with breast cancer by hormone therapy (HT) use.

HT never users HT ever users
Characteristics Never
(N=8071)
E-only
(N=2258)
E+P
(N=1340)
Other/Unknown
(N=600)
Age at Diagnosis
 50-54 1342 16.63% 335 14.84% 379 28.28% 107 17.83%
 55-59 1116 13.83% 445 19.71% 479 35.75% 152 25.33%
 60-64 1586 19.65% 497 22.01% 324 24.18% 154 25.67%
 65-69 2079 25.76% 517 22.90% 132 9.85% 112 18.67%
 70-74 1332 16.50% 344 15.23% 22 1.64% 67 11.17%
 75-79 616 7.63% 120 5.31% 4 0.30% 8 1.33%
Menopausal Status
 Postmenopausal 7109 88.08% 2094 92.74% 1154 86.12% 550 91.67%
 Premenopausal 807 10.00% 35 1.55% 115 8.58% 28 4.67%
 Unknown 155 1.92% 129 5.71% 71 5.30% 22 3.67%
Body Mass Index
 Less than 22.8 1724 21.36% 577 25.55% 409 30.52% 192 32.00%
 22.8-25.5 1878 23.27% 565 25.02% 348 25.97% 152 25.33%
 25.6-29.1 2014 24.95% 574 25.42% 314 23.43% 140 23.33%
 29.2+ 2164 26.81% 493 21.83% 245 18.28% 108 18.00%
 Unknown 291 3.61% 49 2.17% 24 1.79% 8 1.33%
Smoking History
 Never 3971 49.20% 1114 49.34% 572 42.69% 262 43.67%
 Former 2509 31.09% 752 33.30% 524 39.10% 222 37.00%
 Current 1575 19.51% 389 17.23% 242 18.06% 115 19.17%
 Missing 16 0.20% 3 0.13% 2 0.15% 1 0.17%
History of Mammography Screening
 Never 2293 28.41% 249 11.03% 40 2.99% 73 12.17%
 Ever 5064 62.74% 1842 81.58% 1263 94.25% 487 81.17%
 Unknown 714 8.85% 167 7.40% 37 2.76% 40 6.67%
Extent of Disease/Stage
 Local 4836 59.92% 1470 65.10% 914 68.21% 381 63.50%
 Regional 2191 27.15% 539 23.87% 322 24.03% 159 26.50%
 Distant 249 3.09% 36 1.59% 13 0.97% 10 1.67%
 Unknown 795 9.85% 213 9.43% 91 6.79% 50 8.33%
Histologic Type
 Lobular 729 9.03% 219 9.70% 155 11.57% 56 9.33%
 Non-lobular 7342 90.97% 2039 90.30% 1185 88.43% 544 90.67%