Table 2.

Patient, facility and tumor aggressiveness factors and symptomatic awareness despite a recent screen in the Breast Cancer Care in Chicago study (2005–2008).

	Symptomatic breast cancer awareness despite a recent screen
	Within the past year			Within the past 2 years
	N	%	P-Value	N	%	P-Value
Ethnicitya			0.0004			0.0004
nH White	288	18		314	25
nH Black	267	27		304	36
Hispanic	119	36		132	42
Age			0.0036			0.0002
25–49	147	30		169	39
50–59	215	30		246	39
60–79	312	19		335	24
Breast Density			0.0005			0.0016
Fatty	29	14		33	24
Scattered fibroglandular	190	18		208	25
Heterogeneously dense	154	32		171	39
Extremely dense	56	34		63	41
Socioeconomic factors
Health insurancea			0.7550			0.6840
None	63	29		71	37
Public	104	25		117	33
Private	507	24		562	32
Education			0.4806			0.4000
<12	121	26		135	34
12	117	26		133	35
>12	433	24		479	31
Income			0.095			0.0976
<20K	164	28		181	35
20–50K	302	26		343	35
>50K	186	20		203	27
Disadvantage			0.2316			0.1172
>1 SD below mean	106	21		113	26
Within 1 SD of the mean	439	25		493	33
>1 SD above mean	127	28		142	35
Affluence			0.1124			0.0464
>1 SD below mean	45	29		49	35
Within 1 SD of the mean	480	26		542	34
>1 SD above mean	147	20		157	25
Facility characteristics
Designation			0.1076			0.0500
Not Disproportionate Share	496	24		547	31
Disproportionate Share	164	30		187	39
Designation			0.0104			0.0536
Not a Breast Center of
Excellence	433	28		480	35
Breast Center of Excellence	228	19		257	28
University-Based			0.0188			0.0069
No	485	27		545	35
Yes	189	19		205	25
Reliance on dedicated radiologists			0.0026			0.0017
None	122	35		137	42
Partial	248	24		475	32
Sole reliance	128	19		138	25
Tumor aggressiveness factors
ER/PR status			0.00006			0.0011
Either or both positive	413	22		461	30
Double negative	88	42		96	47
Histologic Grade (1,2,3)			0.0018			0.0020
Low	119	17		129	23
Moderate	212	21		237	30
High	187	32		209	39

^aP-values for these 2 variables and for all binary variables are from a general Chi-Squared test, whereas p-values for the remaining ordered variables are from a test for trend via logistic regression. P-values >0.15 are suppressed.