Skip to main content

Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Trends in complementary/alternative medicine use by breast cancer survivors: Comparing survey data from 1998 and 2005

Characteristics

1998

N = 411

n (%) or Mean (SD)

2005

N = 527

n (%) or Mean (SD)

P-value*

Mean age (years)

57.9 (11.3)

60.9 (13.3)

<0.01(1)

Months since first diagnosis with BC†§

34.9 (8.75)

27.5 (5.4)

<0.01(1)

Had surgery for their BC

394 (95.8)

479 (90.8)

<0.01(2)

Had radiotherapy for their BC

263 (64.1)

350 (66.5)

0.44(2)

Had chemotherapy for their BC

152 (37.1)

234 (44.4)

0.02(2)

Had hormone therapy for their BC

114 (27.8)

273 (51.8)

<0.01(2)

Married

294 (71.6)

335 (63.5)

0.01(2)

North American/European cultural group

337 (82.0)

405 (76.8)

<0.01(2)

Completed more than high school

202 (49.2)

295 (56.0)

0.03(2)

Household annual income > $40,000§

204 (49.7)

245 (46.4)

0.54(2)

  1. * (1) Based on an independent sample t-test, (2) based on a two-sided Z-score
  2. † Calculated as the number of months between a woman's date of diagnosis to April 1st 1998 for the 1998 cohort and to September 1st 2005 for the 2005 cohort
  3. ± BC= Breast cancer
  4. §Income based on Canadian dollars for total household income (not specified if before or after taxes) and total household income in Canadian dollars before taxes in 2005 cohort