. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 14.

Published in final edited form as: J Support Oncol. 2013 Mar;11(1):22–30. doi: 10.1016/j.suponc.2012.05.003

Table 1.

Characteristics of the NSABP B-32 HRQoL Study Population at Baseline

Characteristic	No. of Patients (N = 744)	% of Patients

Race
White	650	87.4^a
Black	69	9.3^a
Other	25	3.4^a

Age
< 50 years	161	21.6
≥50 years	583	78.4

Treatment arm
AD	354	47.6
SNR	390	52.4

Tumor size
≤2 cm	648	87.1
2.1–4 cm	91	12.2
≥4.1 cm	5	0.7

Surgery
Lumpectomy	625	84.0
Modified radical mastectomy	119	16.0

Abbreviations: AD, axillary dissection; SNR, sentinel node resection.

Percentages do not add up to 100% because of rounding.