Research Article

Barriers and Facilitators for Utilization of Genetic Counseling and Risk Assessment Services in Young Female Breast Cancer Survivors

Table 1

Demographics of the young breast cancer survivors from the registry and the random sample that was selected for the study.

YBCS
population
Sample
population
Respondent
population
Nonrespondent population
N = 3,911

Age44.62 (20–49)43.02 (20–49)43.04 (26–49)43.01 (20–49)
Race
 White3,218 (82.3%)399 (79.8%)249 (86.2%)150 (71.1%)
 Black531 (13.6%)69 (13.8%)24 (8.3%)45 (21.3%)
 Other103 (2.6%)32 (6.4%)16 (5.5%)16 (7.6%)
Cancer stage
 Invasive2,915 (74.5%)358 (71.6%)204 (70.6%)154 (73.0%)
 Noninvasive996 (25.5%)142 (28.4%)85 (29.4%)57 (27.0%)