Do Breast Cancer Patients Tested in the Oncology Care Setting Share BRCA Mutation Results with Family Members and Health Care Providers?

Table 1

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of study participants who had BRCA testing (𝑛=77)^a.

Characteristic	Mean (SD, range)
Age at diagnosis (years)	47.6 (10.7, 24–69)
Current age (years)	52.0 (10.9, 25–70)
Time since diagnosis (months)	44.5 (70.2, 0.6–339.9)
	n (%)
Current stage
Stage 1	19 (24.7)
Stage 2/3	24 (31.2)
Stage 4	6 (7.8)
Unstaged	7 (9.1)
Other/unknown	14 (18.2)
BRCA test result
Positive	3 (3.9)
True negative	31 (40.3)
Uninformative	11 (14.3)
Do not know/other	19 (24.7)
Did not report result	13 (16.9)
Previous surgery
Yes	64 (83.1)
No	9 (11.7)
Primary payor at diagnosis
Private insurance	44 (57.1)
Public insurance	18 (23.4)
No insurance	2 (2.6)
Other	11 (14.3)
Education
High school or less	13 (16.9)
Vocational school/some college	25 (32.5)
College graduate and beyond	36 (46.8)
Total household income prior to diagnosis
≤35 K	20 (26.0)
>35 K to ≤50 K	12 (15.6)
>50 K	30 (39.0)
Prefer not to answer	14 (18.2)
Marital status
Married or living with partner	51 (66.2)
Other	26 (33.8)
Race
White	63 (81.8)
Black	5 (6.5)
Other	6 (7.8)

^aPercentages may not add up to 100 due to missing data.