Table 1.

Persistence with hormone therapy, according to sociodemographic characteristics for women with breast cancer. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Southeastern Brazil, 2004 to 2010. (N = 5,861)

Sociodemographic characteristics		n	Prob. (%) of persistence until end of observation	Log-rank (p)	Wilcoxon (p)
Age (years)				< 0.0001	< 0.0001
	< 40	519	38.0
	40 to 49	1,414	49.7
	50 to 59	1,500	49.4
	60 to 69	1,202	50.4
	≥ 70	1,226	49.5
Education				0.0048	0.0263
	Illiterate/Incomplete elementary schoolchool	2,943	47.5
	Complete elementary school	1,032	46.1
	Complete secondary school	1,259	50.9
	Higher education	580	52.4
	No information	47	53.2
Marital status				0.0009	0.0081
	Partner	2,725	50.1
	No partner	3,098	46.6
	No information	38	47.4