Table 1.
Patient characteristics (N = 548)
| Age | |
| Mean (SD) | 60.6 (12.3) |
| Range | 19–89 |
| Sex | |
| Female | 54.0 % |
| Male | 46.0 % |
| Education | |
| Compulsory or less | 31.2 % |
| Post compulsory | 41.6 % |
| University or college | 27.3 % |
| Employment status | |
| Full-time job | 20.4 % |
| Part-time job | 10.2 % |
| Homemaker | 7.4 % |
| Retired | 36.3 % |
| Unemployed | 3.7 % |
| Student | 0.2 % |
| Other | 11.8 % |
| UICC stage | |
| I | 9.9 % |
| II | 28.9 % |
| III | 24.4 % |
| IV | 36.8 % |
| Cancer site (primary) | |
| Breast cancer | 25.7 % |
| Colorectal cancer | 12.8 % |
| Lung cancer | 11.7 % |
| Head and neck cancer | 8.0 % |
| Prostate cancer | 7.4 % |
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 7.3 % |
| Stomach/esophageal cancer | 6.6 % |
| Gynecologic cancer | 6.0 % |
| Other | 14.5 % |
| Treatment status | |
| On-treatment | 74.3 % |
| Off-treatment | 25.7 % |