Table 1.
Characteristics of spouses and survivors in cancer and non-cancer samples. Cancer sample is from the Penn State Cancer Survivor Survey; non-cancer sample is from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics.
| Husbands | Wives | |||||
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| Characteristic | Cancer (N=542) |
Non-cancer (N=1,459) |
P-value | Cancer (N=285) |
Non-cancer (N=1,307) |
P-value |
| Months since diagnosis / baseline | 45.9 | 45.2 | 0.1641 | 46.2 | 45.1 | 0.10 |
| Survivor had recurrence | 14.9% | - | 15.4% | - | ||
| Survivor stage | ||||||
| Stage I | 50.6% | - | 33.3% | - | ||
| Stage II | 29.9% | - | 35.1% | - | ||
| Stage III | 11.3% | - | 17.2% | - | ||
| Stage IV | 5.7% | - | 10.9% | - | ||
| Unstaged | 2.6% | - | 35.1% | - | ||
| Age | <0.0001 | 0.0002 | ||||
| <40 | 12.7% | 30.5% | 12.6% | 29.3% | ||
| 40-50 | 35.4% | 43.4% | 30.5% | 44.5% | ||
| 50-59 | 42.6% | 23.6% | 44.6% | 23.8% | ||
| 60+ | 9.2% | 2.5% | 12.3% | 2.4% | ||
| Age difference from survivor | 1.1 | 2.0 | <0.0001 | 3.1 | 2.1 | |
| Nonwhite | 4.6% | 26.0% | <0.0001 | 4.2% | 25.0% | <0.0001 |
| Children < 18 | 36.5% | 55.9% | <0.0001 | 31.9% | 54.2% | <0.0001 |
| Education | <0.0001 | 0.003 | ||||
| Less than high school | 3.1% | 5.6% | 4.2% | 4.5% | ||
| High school | 32.3% | 37.1% | 37.9% | 37.6% | ||
| Some college | 24.5% | 28.3% | 20.0% | 28.2% | ||
| College | 21.4% | 18.8% | 20.4% | 19.2% | ||
| Post college | 18.6% | 10.2% | 17.5% | 10.4% | ||
| Survivor Education | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||
| Less than high school | 3.9% | 7.9% | 4.2% | 7.5% | ||
| High school | 34.3% | 36.0% | 29.1% | 36.4% | ||
| Some college | 17.0% | 25.3% | 18.6% | 26.4% | ||
| College | 20.8% | 19.9% | 24.2% | 18.9% | ||
| Post college | 24.0% | 11.0% | 23.9% | 10.8% | ||
| Region | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||
| Midwest | 0.4% | 27.5% | 0.7% | 28.2% | ||
| South Atlantic | 33.2% | 20.2% | 26.0% | 21.5% | ||
| South Central | 0.6% | 16.9% | 0.0% | 16.9% | ||
| West | 0.0% | 18.0% | 0.4% | 16.7% | ||
| Midatlantic | 65.1% | 12.2% | 72.6% | 12.2% | ||
| Other | 0.7% | 5.2% | 0.4% | 4.5% | ||
| Urbanicity | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||
| Urban | 30.8% | 45.6% | 24.9% | 45.3% | ||
| Suburban | 47.0% | 34.3% | 48.4% | 33.8% | ||
| Not urban | 22.1% | 20.1% | 26.7% | 20.9% | ||
| County unemployment rate | 5.1% | 5.7% | <0.0001 | 5.2% | 5.6% | <0.0001 |
| County population density (pop / mile2) | 0.06 | 0.0004 | ||||
| <107 | 7.4% | 27.1% | 8.8% | 27.5% | ||
| 107-357 | 29.7% | 23.6% | 31.9% | 24.0% | ||
| 358-1259 | 45.8% | 21.6% | 48.4% | 21.7% | ||
| 1260+ | 17.2% | 27.7% | 10.9% | 26.7% | ||
| Survivor weekly hours at baseline | <0.0001 | 0.0009 | ||||
| <20 | 27.3% | 16.9% | 9.1% | 3.8% | ||
| 20-34 | 15.5% | 17.8% | 5.6% | 2.8% | ||
| 35-44 | 39.5% | 47.4% | 40.0% | 44.3% | ||
| 45+ | 17.7% | 17.9% | 45.3% | 49.0% | ||