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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015 Apr 29;151(2):427–434. doi: 10.1007/s10549-015-3387-2

Table 1. Sociodemographic and healthcare utilization characteristics for breast cancer survivors recruited through an academic medical center's cancer registry and responded to a mailed survey, 2011 (N = 372).

Characteristics N (%)
Age (years)
 ≤49 35 (9.4)
 50–64 188 (50.5)
 65+ 149 (40.1)
Race/ethnicity
 Hispanic 33 (8.9)
 NH White 270 (72.6)
 NH Black 57 (15.3)
 NH Other 12 (3.2)
Married/live with partner (yes) 243 (65.4)
Education*
 <HS/HS diploma/GED 74 (19.8)
 Some college/technical degree 121 (32.5)
 Bachelor's degree 104 (27.9)
 Graduate degree 74 (19.8)
Insurance status*
 Private/VA 244 (65.5)
 Medicare/medigap 86 (23.1)
 Medicaid/state 31 (8.4)
 None 11 (3.0)
Follow-up care in 2010/11 (yes) 331 (89.0)
Provider type, 2010/2011 follow-up care
 No provider 41 (11.0)
 PCP only 11 (3.0)
 Oncologist only 254 (68.3)
 PCP and oncologist 66 (17.7)
Years since diagnosis
 <5 years 221 (59.4)
 ≥5 years 151 (40.6)

NH Non-Hispanic, HS high school, GED general educational development, VA Veteran's affairs, PCP primary care physician

*

Reduced sample size for married/live with partner (n = 370), education (n = 369), and insurance status (n = 368) due to missing data