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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Nov 6;136(3):899–906. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-2324-x

Table 1.

Patient Demographics

Characteristic Total Population (n=4217) Willing to Donate Not Willing to Donate P-value for Difference between Groups
Mean age (years±SD) 57.8 (±11.1) 59.0 (±10.9) 55.4 (±11.1) <0.0001#*
College education 3,214 2,123 1,091 0.898
No partner 1,473 981 492 0.593
Hispanic 502 338 164 0.618
African-American 261 176 85 0.624
Asian-American 444 245 199 <0.001*
Other Non-Caucasian race/ethnicity 102 71 31 0.441
Personal history of breast cancer 431 315 116 0.001*
Family history of breast cancer 1,224 874 350 <0.001*
Breast biopsy 1,223 876 347 <0.001*
Breast symptoms 967 639 328 0.977
Comorbidity 1,092 791 301 <0.001*
#

indicates two-sample t-test p-value; all other p-values are from the Pearson chi-square test;

*

indicates statistically significant (p<0.05) characteristic. SD = standard deviation.