Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Norwegian Cancer Survivors: Gender-Specific Prevalence and Associations for Use

Table 1

Basic characteristics of the studied participants.

	Cancer patients	Women with cancer	Men with cancer
	(𝑛=630)	(𝑛=325)	(𝑛=305)
Percentage women	51.6
Mean age	65.9	66.5	66.3
Median age (range)	66 (30–87)	66 (30–87)	67 (36–86)
Living with a spouse/partner %	70.2	56.8	84.4
University degree %	32.6	28.3	37.2
Self-reported good health %	53.0	53.1	53.0
Self-reported poor health %	9.0	8.4	9.6
More than 400 000 NOK (70 000$/54 000€) in house hold income last year %	47.5	38.9	55.8
Less than 125 000 NOK (21 500$/16 400€) in house hold income last year %.	3.5	5.7	1.4
Seen a general practitioner last year %	89.6	90.7	88.4
Mean time since diagnosis (years)	10.6	12.0	9.4