Table 2a.
Characteristics of patients
| Topic | Patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mean age (range) | Race (% white) | Treatment | Education (% HS or less) | Mean years since dx | |
| Surgery | 14 | 64 (40–83) | 100 | 43% mast | 36 | 1.7 |
| Reconstruction | 21 | 50 (35–69) | 92 | 85% (11/13) recon* | 15 | 2.7 |
| Chemotherapy/hormone therapy** | 17 | 53 (40–63) | 92 | 62% CH 77% HT 59% both 15% none | 0 | 2.5 |
dx, diagnosis; HS, high school; mast, mastectomy; recon, surgical breast reconstruction; CH, chemotherapy; HT, hormone therapy; none, no systemic therapy.
*For reconstruction, treatment data were available for 13 of the 21 patients.
**For CHT, demographic data were available for 13 of the 17 patients.