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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fam Cancer. 2017 Oct;16(4):597–603. doi: 10.1007/s10689-017-9987-8

Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Cases (n=313)

Variable Categories Cases First degree relatives Parents

Age X=56.11 (12.33) X=51.6(15.6) (19–91)
[Range] [20–89]

Variable Categories N % N % N %

Gender Female 175 56 64 69
Male 138 44 46 31

Race White 311 99 95 96
Non-white 2 0.6 5 4

Education ≤ High school degree 39 12 35 11 14
College/technical school 78 25 102 33 32
≥ College degree 195 63 195 62 54

Marital status Never married 19 6 4 7
Married or living as married 253 81 225 72 81
Separated/Divorced 33 11 21 22
Widowed 8 2 4 0

Income ≤ 50K 51 16 96 31 39
51–70K 85 28 55 18 13
≥ 70K 150 47 137 44 48
Refused/did not know 27 9 25 8 ==

Stage at diagnosis In situ 38 12
Localized 247 79
Regional, direct extension only 2 1
Regional, regional lymph nodes only 17 5
Distant 1 1
Unstaged 2 1
Other 6 1