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. 2019 Mar 8;27(7):1008–1017. doi: 10.1038/s41431-019-0352-2

Table 1.

Participants’ characteristics

Sex Female 28/31
Male 3/31
Age 18–49 15/31
50 and over 16/31
Ethnicity Black, Caribbean 1/31
East Asian 2/21
Latin American 1/31
Mixed heritage 4/31
Southeast Asian 1/31
White/European 20/31
Other 2/31
Education College, high school or less 12/31
Bachelor degree or post-graduate degree 19/31
Income $79,000 or less 13/31
$80,000 or more 15/31
Country of Origin Outside Canada 15/31
Canada 16/31
Family history of cancer Yes 31/31
Affected by cancer Yes 20/31
No 10/31
Unsure 1/31
Cancer typea Breast 16/31
Endometrial 2/31
Ovarian 2/31
Colon 1/31
Thyroid 1/31
Participant-reported past genetic testing BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 only 16/31
Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer genes, other than BRCA1/2 3/31
BRCA1/2 and other hereditary breast and ovarian cancer genes 4/31
Lynch Syndrome 3/31
Unsure 5/31

aTwo patients were affected by multiple cancers (thyroid and endometrial, ovarian and breast)