Conducting Molecular Epidemiological Research in the Age of HIPAA: A Multi-Institutional Case-Control Study of Breast Cancer in African-American and European-American Women
Table 5
Characteristics of 560 European American breast cancer cases.
New Jersey
New York
(252)
%
(308)
%
Age at interview
40
18
7.1
31
10.1
50–59
166
65.9
211
68.7
60
68
27.0
65
21.2
Highest grade of school completed1
Less than 11th grade
6
2.4
7
2.3
High school graduate or equivalent
47
18.7
34
11.1
Some college
60
23.8
60
19.5
College graduate
83
32.9
97
31.6
Postgraduate degree
56
22.2
109
35.5
Health insurance (multiple choices possible)
Medicaid1
0
0.0
13
4.2
Medicare
15
6.0
16
5.2
Employer-provided insurance1
220
87.7
235
76.3
Pay for insurance out of pocket
17
6.8
25
8.1
I do not have health insurance
6
2.4
16
5.2
Other
9
3.6
11
3.6
BMI1
Underweight
2
0.9
7
2.5
Normal
98
42.6
141
49.5
Overweight
57
24.8
75
26.3
Obese
73
31.7
62
21.8
First degree relative with breast cancer
Yes
58
23.0
83
27.0
No
194
77.0
225
73.0
Age at menarche1
11
25
10.0
23
7.5
11–13
120
48.2
123
40.3
13
104
41.8
159
52.1
ER status1
Positive
109
77.9
28
77.4
Negative
31
22.1
96
22.6
Grade
Well-differentiated
43
22.8
25
18.1
Moderately differentiated
88
46.6
65
47.1
Poorly differentiated
58
30.7
48
34.8
Histologic type
DCIS
56
25.2
40
27.6
Invasive
166
74.8
105
72.4
1P < .05, Chi-square or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate, for differences between states.
