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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Mar 1;20(3):454–463. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0974

Table 1.

Distribution of baseline demographic characteristics, breast cancer case groups and non-cases

Non-cases Cases*
ER+ Triple-negative
n (%) n (%) n (%)
Age at randomization / enrollment
  50–59 50,445 (33) 746 (29) 122 (40)
  60–69 67,606 (45) 1,250 (48) 125 (41)
  70–79 32,654 (22) 614 (24) 60 (20)
Race / ethnicity
  White, not of Hispanic origin 124,164 (83) 2,317 (89) 241 (79)
  Hispanic/ Latina 6,089 (4) 53 (2) 8 (3)
  African-American 13,681 (9) 149 (6) 50 (16)
  Other 6,391 (4) 85 (3) 7 (2)
  Missing 380 6 1
Education
  ≤High school diploma / GED 33,967 (23) 483 (19) 75 (25)
  Vocational / training school 15,370 (10) 232 (9) 30 (10)
  Some college / associates degree 41,558 (28) 696 (27) 78 (26)
  ≥College graduate 58,684 (39) 1,177 (45) 118 (39)
  Missing 1,126 22 6
Household income level
  <$35,000 57,879 (41) 910 (37) 108 (38)
  $35,000 – $74,999 56,720 (40) 1,023 (42) 126 (44)
  ≥$75,000 26,004 (18) 507 (21) 50 (18)
  Missing 10,102 170 23
History of breast cancer in female relatives
  No 116,762 (82) 1,901 (77) 207 (72)
  Yes 25,713 (18) 574 (23) 81 (28)
  Missing 8,230 135 19
Hormone therapy (HT) use at baseline
  No 64,636 (43) 975 (37) 138 (45)
  Yes 85,775 (57) 1,633 (63) 169 (55)
  Missing 118 2 0
History of mammography in past 2 years
  No 24,242 (17) 327 (13) 43 (15)
  Yes 121,520 (83) 2,212 (87) 253 (85)
  Missing 4,767 71 11
Parity
  Nulliparous 17,509 (12) 380 (15) 23 (8)
  1 13,151 (9) 248 (10) 20 (7)
  2 37,355 (25) 683 (26) 90 (29)
  ≥3 81,558 (55) 1,279 (49) 173 (57)
  Missing 956 20 1
Age at first birth (parous women only)
  <20 19,365 (16) 258 (13) 43 (18)
  20–29 87,961 (74) 1,481 (74) 184 (76)
  ≥30 10,861 (9) 255 (13) 16 (7)
  Missing 13,877 216 40
*

ER+ = estrogen receptor-positive cases with known HER2 expression status; triple-negative = ER−/PR−/HER2−