The subjective experience of young women with non-metastatic breast cancer: the Young Women with Breast Cancer Inventory

Table 1 Patients characteristics (N = 546)

Demographics
Age (Range, Mean, SD)	23-62 (40.64, 6.21)
Employment
Farmers	5
Craftspersons, shopkeepers, company managers	28
Executives and intellectual professions	69
Intermediate professions	106
Employees	253
Workers	17
Retired	2
Unemployed	58
Missing	8
Education
No certificate	34
Secondary education diploma – below baccalaureate	129
Baccalaureate or equivalent diploma	114
First undergraduate cycle degree or equivalent diploma	119
Second university cycle degree, doctorate or equivalent diploma	145
Missing	5
Presence of child(ren)	484
Length of the relationship (in years): Mean (SD)	13.71 (8.37)
Disease and treatments characteristics
Event type
First breast cancer	517
Local recurrence	14
Contralateral cancer	13
Missing	2
Time since diagnosis (in years): Mean (SD)	2.47 (2.79)
Treatment for the current event^a
Surgery
Yes	499
No but planned	42
No	5
Partial mastectomy	311
Total mastectomy	213
Immediate reconstruction	21
Delayed reconstruction	132
Unwanted reconstruction	17
Unknown	11
sentinel lymph node biopsy	160
axillary lymph node dissection	359
Radiotherapy
Yes	343
No but planned	142
No	50
Missing	11
Trastuzumab
Yes	134
No but planned	11
No	397
Missing	4
Hormone therapy
Yes	251
No but planned	131
No	163
Missing	1
Tamoxifen	229
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH)	29
Aromatase inhibitors	29
Psychotherapy
Yes	74
No	466
Missing	6
Antidepressants or anxiolytic drugs
Yes	148
No	394
Missing	4
Sick leave
Yes	236
No	282
Non applicable	23
Working part-time for medical reasons
Yes	28
No	481
Non applicable	29
Missing	8

^aAll the patients were or had been undergoing chemotherapy at the time of the study

ISSN: 1477-7525