Table 1.
Demographic data
| <65 (40–64) | ≥65 (65–86) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 79 | 100 | 74 | 100 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| White | 70 | 89 | 70 | 95 |
| Other | 9 | 11 | 4 | 5 |
| Education | ||||
| Less than high school | 7 | 8.9 | 9 | 12.2 |
| High school graduate | 23 | 29.1 | 22 | 29.7 |
| Some college/junior college | 26 | 32.9 | 21 | 28.4 |
| Bachelor’s degree or higher | 22 | 27.9 | 22 | 29.7 |
| Unknown | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 |
| Marital Status –* | ||||
| Single, never married | 4 | 5.1 | 3 | 4.0 |
| Married | 58 | 73.4 | 43 | 58.1 |
| Separated/Divorced | 12 | 15.2 | 5 | 6.8 |
| Widowed | 5 | 6.3 | 22 | 29.7 |
| Unknown | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.4 |
| Household composition | ||||
| Lives alone | 12 | 15.2 | 20 | 27.0 |
| Employment status –** | ||||
| Full/part-time | 42 | 53.2 | 8 | 10.8 |
| Retired | 11 | 13.9 | 47 | 63.5 |
| Homemaker/unemployed | 19 | 24.1 | 19 | 25.7 |
| Unknown | 7 | 8.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Type of Mastectomy | ||||
| Radical | 31 | 39.2 | 23 | 31.1 |
| Modified radical | 47 | 59.5 | 51 | 68.9 |
| Recurrent and Re-treated | 12 | 15.2 | 13 | 17.6 |
| Lymphedema | 33 | 41.8 | 29 | 39.2 |
| Numbness | 28 | 35.4 | 22 | 29.7 |
| # Comorbid Conditions | ||||
| 0 | 13 | 16.5 | 5 | 6.8 |
| 1 | 21 | 26.6 | 13 | 17.6 |
| 2–3 | 33 | 41.8 | 35 | 47.3 |
| 4+ | 12 | 15.2 | 21 | 28.4 |
*
chi-square test, chi-square=16.8, p<0.01.
**
chi-square test, chi-square=52.4, p<0.001