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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Educ. 2012 Dec;27(4):612–617. doi: 10.1007/s13187-012-0419-z

Table 2. Demographic baseline and follow-up comparison of breast cancer and prostate cancer arms for women aged 40 and older.

Women aged 40 and older Baseline Follow-up


Breast Prostate Breast Prostate
Age n (SD) n (SD) n (SD) n (SD)
Mean (SD) 53.14 (9.97) 52.88 (9.26) 53.28 (10.16) 53.09 (9.40)
Median 51.43 51.02 51.63 51.29
Mode 45 49 44 49
Range 40–101 40–90 40–101 40–90
Education n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
High school or less 239 (38.1) 207 (39.8) 165 (39.4) 138 (40.9)
Some college or vocational school 95 (15.2) 83 (16.0) 68 (16.2) 53 (15.7)
Completed college 230 (36.7) 178 (34.2) 146 (34.8) 111 (32.9)
Graduate school or more 63 (10.0) 52 (10.0) 40 (9.5) 35 (10.4)
Unspecified 5 8 4 3
Full sample 627 (100.0) 520 (100.0) 419 (100.0) 337 (100.0)
Ethnic group n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Chinese 150 (23.7) 130 (24.6) 99 (23.4) 87 (25.6)
Filipino 201 (31.8) 156 (29.5) 123 (29.1) 91 (26.8)
Korean 133 (21.0) 115 (21.8) 85 (20.1) 70 (20.6)
Vietnamese 148 (23.4) 127 (24.1) 116 (27.4) 92 (27.1)
Full sample 632 (100.0) 528 (100.0) 423 (100.0) 340 (100.0)
English as the native language n (%)a n (%)a n (%)a n (%)a
Chinese 20 (3.2) 15 (2.9) 11 (2.7) 12 (3.6)
Filipino 49 (7.8) 39 (7.4) 28 (6.8) 20 (6.0)
Korean 18 (2.9) 16 (3.0) 7 (1.7) 9 (2.7)
Vietnamese 3 (0.5) 2 (0.4) 2 (0.5) 1 (0.3)
Total 90 (14.3) 72 (13.7) 48 (11.6) 42 (12.7)
a

Percentage from total