Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

		%	N (amount/total)
Total		168
Gender
	Female	98.2	164/167
	Male	1.8	3/167
Age in years, mean/median (range)		54.6/56.0 (28-76)
Education
	Junior high school and below	33.5	56/167
	Senior high school and above	66.5	111/167
Residents in the local community
	<1000	7.9	13/165
	1000-9999	19.4	32/165
	10,000-49,999	29.7	49/165
	50,000-99,999	5.5	9/165
	>100,000	37.6	62/165
Employment
	Unemployed	1.2	2/161
	Official	12.4	20/161
	Employed	41.6	67/161
	Self-Employed	11.8	19/161
	Pensioner	32.9	53/161
Number of people per household
	1	28.6	46/161
	2	44.7	72/161
	3	13.7	22/161
	>4	13.0	21/161
Diagnosed with breast cancer		97.0	163/168
Time since onset
	Last month	0.6	1/163
	Last year	14.7	24/163
	1-5 years ago	38.7	63/163
	>5 years ago	46.0	75/163
Metastatic disease		25.6	43/161
Therapies
	Operation	97.6	164/168
	Chemotherapy - intravenous	72.6	122/168
	Chemotherapy - oral	9.5	16/168
	Anti-hormonal therapy	75.0	126/168
	Antibody therapy	22.0	37/168
	Radiation	81.0	136/168
	Other therapy	17.9	30/168
Menopausal status		74.8	119/159
Other cancer		7.3	12/165
ECOG
	0	71.2	116/163
	1	25.2	41/163
	2	3.7	6/163