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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2009 Feb;18(2):200–208. doi: 10.1002/pon.1384

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Offspring (n=22)
No. (%)
Parents (n=13)
No. (%)
Age at interview (year), median (range) 26 (18–33) 48 (43–66)
Daughters 24.5 (18–33)
Sons 27 (20–33)
Gender
 Women 12 (55) 11 (85)
 Men 10 (45) 2 (15)
Race
 White 20 (91) 11 (85)
 Black 1 (5) 1 (8)
 Hispanic 1 (5) 1 (8)
Personal history of cancer 0 (0) 10 (77)
Marital status
 Never married 13 (59) 0 (0)
 Married 9 (41) 10 (77)
 Divorced 0 (0) 2 (15)
 Widowed 0 (0) 1 (8)
Education
 High school only 2 (10) 4 (31)
 Some college or in college 8 (36) 2 (15)
 Completed college 7 (32) 4 (31)
 Graduate education 5 (23) 3 (27)
Have children 7 (32) 13 (100)
Among women
 Had prophylactic mastectomy 0 (0) 8 (73)
 Had prophylactic oophorectomy 0 (0) 11(100)
Result of BRCA1/2 testing
 Has mutation 3 (14) 13 (100)
 No mutation 4 (18) 0 (0)
 Not tested 15 (68)