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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast. 2016 Jul 22;29:231–240. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2016.06.023

Table 3.

Demographic And Clinical Characteristic By Symptom Count Phenotype

Symptoms reported
At 4-8 Weeks Post-surgery		 Total Sample Symptoms reported
At 12 months Post-surgery
1-7 Symptom ≥8 Symptoms 0 Symptom 1-7 Symptoms ≥8 Symptoms
n =73 n=6 3 N=136 n=14 n=86 n=36
Mean SD Mean p Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD p
Age 52.8 10.3 51.4 11.9 0.461a 52.1 11.1 53.3 13.9 52.5 10.7 50.8 11.1 0.695a
Weight (pounds) 158.7 35.9 160.3 35.4 0.787a 159.4 35.6 144.5 21.4 158.8 35.6 166.8 38.7 0.134a
BMI 27.9 6.5 27.6 6.2 0.765a 27.7 6.3 25.4 4.1 27.6 6.5 29.0 6.5 0.173a
n % n % p n % n % n % n % p
Education 0.582b
Associates degree or
Less		 25 34.2 20 31.7 45 33.1 1 7.1 26 30.2 18 50 0.039c
Bachelor’s degree 35 47.9 27 42.9 62 45.6 10 71.4 40 46.5 12 33.3
Graduate degree 13 17.8 16 25.4 29 21.3 3 21.4 20 23.3 6 16.7
Marital status 0.808b 0.238c
Married/partnered 45 61.6 35 55.6 80 58.8 6 42.9 50 58.1 24 66.7
Divorced/Widowed 10 13.7 10 15.9 20 14.7 5 35.7 11 12.8 4 11.1
Single, never
partnered 		18 24.7 18 28.6 36 26.5 3 21.4 25 29.1 8 22.2
Ethnicity 0.400c 0.189c
Black/African
American		 11 15.1 16 25.4 27 19.9 2 14.3 17 19.8 8 22.2
White Non-Hispanic 49 67.1 33 52.4 82 60.3 8 57.1 56 65.1 18 50
Asian 7 9.6 6 9.5 13 9.6 1 7.1 8 9.3 4 11.1
Hispanic/Latino 5 6.8 7 11.1 12 8.8 3 21.4 3 3.5 6 16.7
More than One Race 1 1.4 1 1.6 2 1.5 0 - 2 2.3 0 -
Employment 0.360b 0.957b
Unemployed 10 13.7 13 20.6 23 16.9 2 14.3 15 17.4 6 16.7
Employed 63 86.3 50 79.4 113 83.1 12 85.7 71 82.6 30 83.3
Surgery 0.024b 0.158c
Mastectomy 4 5.5 11 17.5 15 11 0 - 7 8.1 8 22.2
Lumpectomy 42 57.5 24 38.1 66 48.5 8 57.1 44 51.2 14 38.9
Mastectomy with
immediate
reconstruction		 27 37 28 44.4 55 40.4 6 42.9 35 40.7 14 38.9
Nodes removed
Mean (SD)		 Mean
2.7		 SD
2.1		 Mean
4.1		 SD
3.9		 0.014d Mean
3.3		 SD
2.9		 Mean
2.6		 SD
1.7		 Mean
3.4		 SD
3.3		 Mean
3.4		 SD
2.1		 0.620d
Nodes removed
Median		 Median
2		 Median 3 Median
2		 Median
2		 Median
2		 Median
3
Chemotherapy n = 35 n = 40 0.011b n= 75 n = 7 n = 39 n = 29 0.116c
Neoadjuvant 5 14.3 17 42.5 22 29.3 0 - 11 28.2 11 37.9
Adjuvant 30 85.7 23 57.5 53 70.7 7 100 28 71.8 18 62.1
Radiation 0.712b 0.119c
No 21 31.3 17 28.3 38 29.9 7 50 24 30.8 7 20
Yes 46 68.7 43 71.7 89 70.1 7 50 54 69.2 28 80
a

ANOVA

b

Pearson Chi-square

c

Fisher’s exact test

d

Kruskal-Wallis test

SD: Standard Deviation