Table 1.
Selected sociodemographic and health care access characteristics of female respondents with or without previous breast cancer diagnoses, by race/ethnicity (percent) – BRFSS, 2009
| Breast cancer survivors (median age=68; n=10,035) |
Women without previous breast cancer diagnoses (median age=55; n=234,385) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White (n=8825) |
Black (n=631) |
Hispanic (n=280) |
Other (n=299) |
White (n=190,455) |
Black (n=20,628) |
Hispanic (n=14,213) |
Other (n=9,089) |
|
| Median age (years) | 68.0 % |
64.2 % |
62.7 % |
63.8 % |
56.7 % |
51.7 % |
46.8 % |
49.6 % |
| Current age (years)a,b | ||||||||
| 18-39 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 33.3 | 42.4 | 54.9 | 48.8 |
| 40-64 | 42.0 | 53.0 | 49.4 | 62.3 | 45.4 | 42.2 | 36.3 | 39.2 |
| 65-84 | 48.0 | 42.6 | 46.4 | 33.4 | 18.4 | 13.0 | 8.0 | 10.1 |
| 85+ | 7.5 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 |
| Unknown | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
| Marital statusa,b | ||||||||
| Married/In a relationship | 60.1 | 38.6 | 65.4 | 62.5 | 66.2 | 36.4 | 61.9 | 60.8 |
| Divorced/Widowed/Separated | 34.9 | 48.9 | 33.5 | 33.9 | 20.9 | 29.8 | 18.0 | 15.8 |
| Never married | 4.6 | 12.1 | 1.1 | 3.5 | 12.7 | 33.3 | 20.0 | 23.0 |
| Unknown | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Educationa,b | ||||||||
| <High school | 5.5 | 11.1 | 15.0 | 8.1 | 5.9 | 11.9 | 31.5 | 7.8 |
| High school graduate/GED | 30.1 | 36.4 | 27.4 | 20.5 | 27.8 | 29.5 | 27.0 | 20.9 |
| >High school | 64.2 | 52.5 | 57.6 | 71.4 | 66.2 | 58.4 | 41.2 | 71.1 |
| Unknown | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Income (household),b | ||||||||
| <$15, 000 | 7.1 | 23.5 | 11.6 | 21.4 | 6.6 | 17.4 | 22.4 | 11.0 |
| $15,000 -<$35,000 | 26.3 | 23.0 | 21.8 | 23.4 | 21.1 | 32.1 | 33.1 | 20.9 |
| $35,000-<$50,000 | 14.7 | 11.4 | 14.7 | 11.1 | 13.2 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 12.1 |
| $50,000-<$75,000 | 12.2 | 7.7 | 11.0 | 16.5 | 15.6 | 11.7 | 8.4 | 11.9 |
| >=$75,000 | 21.8 | 16.9 | 19.2 | 20.1 | 29.8 | 14.2 | 12.7 | 31.7 |
| Unknown | 17.8 | 17.6 | 21.6 | 7.6 | 13.8 | 12.2 | 12.5 | 12.4 |
| Employmenta,b | ||||||||
| Employed | 31.6 | 31.5 | 25.0 | 39.3 | 52.6 | 52.0 | 44.4 | 52.7 |
| Unemployed | 3.1 | 5.7 | 11.1 | 4.2 | 5.7 | 12.0 | 11.0 | 9.5 |
| Homemaker or student | 12.5 | 6.8 | 26.2 | 20.0 | 18.3 | 11.5 | 32.3 | 22.0 |
| Retired | 46.9 | 41.6 | 25.1 | 25.7 | 18.2 | 14.2 | 6.6 | 9.3 |
| Unable to work | 5.8 | 14.1 | 12.6 | 10.8 | 4.9 | 10.1 | 5.6 | 5.8 |
| Unknown | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Metropolitan statusa,b | ||||||||
| In the center city of an MSA | 33.6 | 61.1 | 54.4 | 36.2 | 31.0 | 55.1 | 50.3 | 45.5 |
| Outside center city of an MSA but inside the county containing center city |
29.1 | 16.3 | 27.0 | 27.7 | 29.1 | 21.2 | 33.1 | 30.1 |
| Inside a suburban county of MSA/ In an MSA that has no center city |
18.0 | 10.8 | 7.0 | 23.4 | 17.9 | 13.0 | 8.9 | 12.2 |
| Not in MSA | 20.1 | 11.9 | 11.5 | 12.7 | 21.9 | 10.6 | 7.7 | 12.1 |
| Unknown | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Health care insurance coverageb | ||||||||
| Yes | 96.8 | 92.8 | 85.7 | 95.0 | 90.2 | 81.6 | 67.1 | 85.4 |
| No | 3.0 | 7.2 | 14.1 | 5.0 | 9.5 | 18.1 | 32.6 | 14.1 |
| Unknown | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Usual healthcare providerb | ||||||||
| Yes | 96.2 | 93.8 | 93.3 | 94.5 | 89.0 | 84.2 | 69.2 | 80.6 |
| No | 3.7 | 6.2 | 6.7 | 5.4 | 10.9 | 15.6 | 30.4 | 19.3 |
| Unknown | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Could not see doctor due to costa,b | ||||||||
| Yes | 7.3 | 15.3 | 13.7 | 10.4 | 13.2 | 22.9 | 29.7 | 16.9 |
| No | 92.4 | 84.7 | 86.2 | 89.6 | 86.6 | 77.0 | 70.1 | 82.9 |
| Unknown | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Time since last checkupa,b | ||||||||
| < 1 year | 84.2 | 88.1 | 75.5 | 85.9 | 71.9 | 82.0 | 66.9 | 69.5 |
| 1-<2 years | 8.5 | 7.5 | 17.7 | 8.5 | 12.8 | 10.1 | 15.1 | 15.3 |
| 2-<5 years | 3.4 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 7.2 | 4.5 | 9.5 | 7.3 |
| ≥5 years | 2.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 6.3 | 2.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 |
| Unknown | 1.4 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 2.0 |
| Years since diagnosis | ||||||||
| 0 - <5 | 26.7 | 33.9 | 33.0 | 45.5 | – | – | – | – |
| 5 - <10 | 23.7 | 18.2 | 25.2 | 13.1 | – | – | – | – |
| 10 - <15 | 16.9 | 10.8 | 12.9 | 10.4 | – | – | – | – |
| 15 - <20 | 10.2 | 9.0 | 15.9 | 14.3 | – | – | – | – |
| 20 - <25 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 6.5 | 6.8 | – | – | – | – |
| ≥25 | 11.8 | 14.2 | 6.0 | 7.8 | – | – | – | – |
White, Black and “Other” respondents are of non-Hispanic ethnicity. “Other” includes respondents who self-identified as Asian, Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaska Native or other. Breast cancer survivors consist of all female respondents who reported a previous diagnosis of breast cancer. Values are expressed as weighted percentage to account for differences in demographic parameters and sampling bias and are representative of the USA population
BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; GED Graduate Educational Development certificate
Pearson chi-square test for differences in the distribution of demographic and clinical characteristics across the four racial/ethnic groups was significant (p<0.01) among breast cancer survivors
Pearson chi-square test for differences in the distribution of demographic and clinical characteristics across the four racial/ethnic groups was significant (p<0.01) among non-breast cancer respondents