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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Fam Cancer. 2013 Dec;12(4):615–619. doi: 10.1007/s10689-013-9624-0

Table 2.

Association of Demographic and Clinical Variables with interest in research participation.

n Would you tell your male relatives about research study focused on high risk men from BRCA families? P-value Do you think your male relatives would be interested in a study focused on high risk men? P-value
yes no unsure missing* yes no unsure missing*
Gender
 male 150 123 3 21 3 0.868 111 10 29 0 7.89E-11
 female 232 198 5 28 1 90 29 112 1
Age
 ≤50 214 177 4 31 2 0.5698 112 25 77 0 0.4666
 >50 157 135 3 17 2 85 12 59 1
Cancer history
 Any Cancer 282 226 6 36 14 0.7893 142 26 102 12 0.8135
 Prostate Cancer 144 115 2 20 7 0.7761 74 11 53 6 0.5457
 Breast Cancer 59 44 0 13 2 0.1286 32 5 20 2 0.8075
 Pancreatic Cancer 45 38 2 2 3 0.106 23 4 17 1 0.9441
 Melanoma 55 41 1 12 1 0.1733 26 4 23 2 0.4381
BRCA status
BRCA1 in family 200 158 5 24 13 0.9392 93 18 77 12 0.269
BRCA2 in family 205 168 4 26 7 111 23 66 5
 tested/positive 322 264 8 38 12 0.2859 158 33 120 11 0.0192
 tested/negative 15 14 0 0 1 4 4 7 0
 Not tested 64 47 1 12 4 41 4 16 3
*

missing responses to this question removed when calculating p-values