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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2021 Sep 29;30(2):1749–1757. doi: 10.1007/s00520-021-06597-9

Table 1.

Participant demographics, cancer characteristics, and treatment at most recent follow-up

Characteristic (N = 52) Frequency
Age at diagnosis (years), median (IQR) 54.5 (43, 65.5)
Current age, median (IQR) 59 (47, 71.5)
Race Caucasian 71%
African American 27%
Other 2%
Ethnicity Hispanic 2%
Non-Hispanic 98%
Education Less than high school 4%
High school/GED 17%
Vocational and Associates 21%
Undergraduate degree BA/BS 25%
Graduate degree MS/MBA/JD/PhD/MD 33%
Insurance status Private 73%
Medicare 27%
Marital status* Single 12%
Married/Partnered 61%
Separated/Divorced 17%
Widowed 10%
Menopausal at diagnosis Yes 62%
No 38%
Mutation present in those with genetic testing (n = 25) BRCA1 (n = 4) 16%
BRCA2 (n = 1) 4%
PALB2 (n = 1) 4%
Stage 1 31%
2 52%
3 17%
Node status Positive 54%
Negative 46%
Hormone receptor status Positive 56%
Negative 44%
HER-2 receptor status Positive 42%
Negative 58%
Surgery Lumpectomy 44%
Bilateral mastectomy 31%
Bilateral nipple sparing mastectomy 8%
Bilateral skin-sparing mastectomy 6%
UL mastectomy 11%
Lymph node assessment Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy 73%
Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) 19%
Chemotherapy Yes 94%
No 6%
Endocrine therapy Overall 56%
Among HR-positive 97%
Tamoxifen 31%
Aromatase inhibitor 20 69%
Anti-HER2 therapy Yes 42%
No 58%
Radiation Breast 56%
Chest 44%
Boost 18%
LN 59%
Time from diagnosis to SV (years), median (IQR) 0.9 (0.7, 1.3)
Time from diagnosis to most recent follow-up (years), median (IQR) 3.1 (2.4, 4.2)
Time from SV to most recent follow-up (years), median (IQR) 1.9 (1.5, 3.1)
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At SV, 13% were single, 66% were married/partnered, 9% were separated/divorced, and 11% were widowed