Table 1.
Demographic details for patients with breast, prostate and colorectal cancer
| Demographic variable | Cancer type | Total N = 150 (%) |
Pearson’s Chi-square p value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breast | Prostate | Colorectal | |||
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 88 | 0 | 14 | 102 (68.0) | <0.001* |
| Male | 0 | 36 | 11 | 47 (31.3) | |
| Age | |||||
| 18–29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.7) | 0.020* |
| 30–39 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 (8.0) | |
| 40–49 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 25 (16.7) | |
| 50–59 | 31 | 8 | 3 | 42 (28.0) | |
| 60–69 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 47 (31.3) | |
| > 70 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 23 (15.3) | |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| African | 44 | 20 | 14 | 78 (52.0) | |
| Indian | 27 | 9 | 8 | 44 (29.3) | |
| Mixed | 16 | 6 | 4 | 26 (17.3) | 0.814 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1.3) | |
| Highest education | |||||
| None | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 (1.3) | 0.632 |
| At least Primary school | 25 | 10 | 8 | 43 (28.7) | |
| At least Secondary school | 34 | 17 | 9 | 60 (40.0) | |
| University | 24 | 7 | 5 | 36 (24.0) | |
| Postgraduate | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1.3) | |
| Other | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 (5.3) | |
| Stage | |||||
| Do not know | 24 | 12 | 9 | 45 (30.0) | 0.079 |
| 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 12 (8.0) | |
| 2 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 37 (24.7) | |
| 3 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 25 (16.7) | |
| 4 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 30 (20.0) | |
| Remission | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.7) | |
| Monthly income (US$) | |||||
| < 1000 | 43 | 24 | 14 | 71 (54.0) | 0.210 |
| 1001–2000 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 19 (12.7) | |
| > 2000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 (0.7) | |
| Non response | 35 | 6 | 8 | 49 (32.7) | |
*p < 0.05