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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fam Cancer. 2012 Sep;11(3):493–502. doi: 10.1007/s10689-012-9541-7

Table 1.

Eligible Patient Characteristics, Stratified by Interest in Receiving a Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancer Risk Assessment (CRA)

Characteristic Total Eligible for CRA Interested in CRA?

Yes No Statistic

(n = 65) (n = 47) (n = 18)

m sd n % m sd n % m sd n % p-value
Demographic
  Age 48.3 8.7 48.3 9.1 48.3 7.9 n.s.
  Race
    African American 42 64.6 31 66.0 11 61.1 n.s.
    Other 23 35.4 16 34.0 7 38.9
  Ethnicity
    Latina 16 24.6 11 23.4 5 27.8 n.s.
    Other 49 75.4 36 76.6 13 72.2
  Insurance Status
    Uninsured 32 49.2 23 48.9 9 50.0 n.s.
    Medicare/Medicaid 21 32.3 15 31.9 6 33.3
    Private 12 18.5 9 19.1 3 16.7
  Annual Income, $* 47,694 26,654 46,809 22,304 50,006 36,341 n.s.
  Raising ≥1 child, Yes** 43 70.5 32 68.1 11 78.6 n.s.
Clinical
  Breast or ovarian cancer survivor, Yes 7 10.8 4 8.5 3 16.7 n.s.
  Breast/ovarian cancer-affected relatives, # 1.8 1.0 1.9 1.0 1.4 1.1 0.05
  Probability of carrying BRCA1/2 mutation, %*** 4.8 10.0 5.8 11.5 2.2 2.1 0.05
  Lifetime probability of breast cancer diagnosis, %*** 9.7 3.3 10.2 3.5 8.2 2.1 0.03

Note.n.s. = nonsignificant.

*

Calculated using geocoding based on address at time of referral

**

Data missing for 4 patients who declined CRA

***

Calculated using BRCAPRO