From symptom discovery to treatment - women's pathways to breast cancer care: a cross-sectional study

BMC Cancer

Table 4 Association between participant characteristics and pre-treatment interval (n = 192)

Variable	Pre-treatment interval
	N	Median	p-value
Age^a
Age ≤ 54 years	95	37	0.795
Age > 54 years	95	35
Education
None-Grade 7	47	21	0.044
Grade 8-Grade 11	92	41
Grade 12+	53	40
Marital status
Married	83	42	0.344
In stable relationship	6	18
Single	39	28
Widowed	34	29
Divorced/separated	30	37
Paid work
Yes	51	37	0.860
No	141	35
Income status^b
H0	62	39	0.415
H1	76	33
H2	32	35
H3	19	30
Co-morbidities
History of benign breast disease/fibroadenoma	24	36	0.538
Any other co-morbidity	106	34
None	62	40
Cancer stage
Early (stage 1&2)	154	40	0.001
Late (stage 3&4)	38	21
First treatment surgery^c
Yes	157	40	0.002
No	34	15
First treatment chemotherapy^c
Yes	27	14	< 0.001
No	164	40
First treatment hormonal therapy^c
Yes	13	28	0.753
No	178	36
First treatment radiotherapy^c
Yes	2	91	0.105
No	189	35

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