Table 1 Participant characteristics
From: Motivations for contralateral prophylactic mastectomy as a function of socioeconomic status
Diagnosis | |
 Invasive ductal cancer (n = 31) | 27.4% |
 Invasive cancer (n = 26) | 23.0% |
 Ductal carcinoma in situ (n = 23) | 20.4% |
 Mass/lump (n = 11) | 9.7% |
 Invasive lobular cancer (n = 9) | 8.0% |
 Other (n = 13) | 11.5% |
Diagnosis dichotomy (n = 113) | |
 Less serious (n = 47) | 41.6% |
 More serious (n = 66) | 58.4% |
Income | |
 Less than 25 K (n = 7) | 6.2% |
 25–50 K (n = 20) | 17.7% |
 51–75 K (n = 25) | 22.1% |
 76–100 K (n = 17) | 15.0% |
 101 K (n = 30) | 10.6% |
 Declined to Answer (n = 14) | 12.3% |
Income dichotomy (n = 99) | |
 Less than 51 K (n = 27) | 23.9% |
 51 K + (n = 72) | 63.7% |
Insurance | |
 Private (n = 80) | 71.4% |
 Medicare/Medicaid (n = 12) | 10.8% |
 Other (n = 13) | 11.5% |
 Declined to Answer (n = 7) | 6.3% |
Insurance dichotomy (n = 105) | |
 Private (n = 80) | 76.1% |
 Other (n = 25) | 23.8% |
Race/ethnicity | |
 White (n = 99) | 87.6% |
 Black (n = 12) | 10.6% |
 Hispanic (n = 2) | 1.8% |
Race/ethnicity dichotomy | |
 White (n = 99) | 87.5% |
 Minority (n = 14) | 12.5% |
Marital status | |
 Married/partnership (n = 86) | 76.8% |
 Divorced/separated (n =12) | 10.7% |
 Single (n = 8) | 7.1% |
 Widowed (n = 6) | 5.4% |
Education | |
 High school or less (n = 22) | 19.5% |
 Some college (n = 36) | 32.1% |
 Bachelor’s degree (n = 32) | 28.6% |
 Graduate degree (n = 21) | 18.8% |
 Declined to Answer (n = 2) | 1.8% |
Education dichotomy (n = 110) | |
 Less than BA (n = 58) | 51.3% |
 BA+ (n = 53) | 46.9% |
Employment status | |
 Employed (n = 73) | 64.6% |
 Retired (n = 18) | 15.9% |
 Homemaker (n = 14) | 12.4% |
 Unemployed (n = 4) | 3.5% |
 Other (n = 1) | 0.9% |
 Declined to Answer (n = 3) | 1.8% |
Employment dichotomy (n = 111) | |
 Employed (n = 73) | 64.6% |
 Unemployed (n = 37) | 32.7% |
Age at Diagnosis | |
 Range 22-73, M = 50.29 |  |
 SD = 12.50 |  |
Age dichotomy (n = 112) | |
 Younger than 46 (n = 44) | 38.9% |
 46 and older (n = 68) | 61.1% |