Table 1.

Patient characteristics in terms of sociodemographic and medical (clinical) features.

Characteristic
Age	N	M	Min.	Max.	SD
	394	58.1	24.0	89.0	12.6
Sex	N		%
female	225		57.1
male	169		42.9
Place of residence
village	192		48.7
town with up to 10,000 residents	67		17.0
town with 10,000–50,000 residents	92		23.4
city above 50,000 residents	43		10.9
Marital status
single	134		34.0
in a relationship	260		66.0
Education
primary	38		9.6
vocational	117		29.7
secondary	151		38.3
tertiary	88		22.4
Financial situation
very good or good	242		61.4
sufficient or bad	152		38.6
Number of children
none	61		15.5
one	50		12.7
two	114		28.9
three	99		25.2
four and more	70		17.7
Hospitalization due to
treatment	338		85.6
remission after treatment—follow-up examinations	56		14.4
Type of diagnosed cancer
breast cancer	86		21.8
colorectal cancer	47		11.9
prostate cancer	46		11.7
myeloma	38		9.7
ovarian cancer	36		9.1
other	141		35.8
Date of cancer diagnosis
in 2020	110		27.9
in 2019	111		28.2
in 2018 and earlier	173		43.9

M—arithmetic mean, SD—standard deviation, Min—minimum, Max—maximum.