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Table 1 Characteristics of patients approached, patients consented and completed participants

From: Clinical implementation of an oncology‐specific family health history risk assessment tool

Characteristics Patients approached
(n = 195)
Participants consented
(n = 121)
Participants completed risk assessment
(n = 102)
p-valuea
Mean age at BC diagnosis (SD) 52.9 (9.1) 53.1 (9.2) 52.5 (9.2) 0.891
Mean years from BC diagnosis to date approached (SD) 3.5 (4.2) 3.5 (3.6) 3.2 (3.7) 0.991
Race     0.959
 Chinese 129 (66.2) 81 (66.9) 67 (65.7)  
 Malay 40 (20.5) 20 (16.5) 17 (16.7)  
 Indian 13 (6.7) 8 (6.6) 7 (6.9)  
 Others 13 (6.7) 12 (9.9) 11 (10.8)  
Overall Breast Cancer Staging    0.952  
 0 5 (2.6) 5 (4.1) 4 (3.9)  
 I 32 (16.4) 21 (17.4) 20 (19.6)  
 II 74 (37.9) 51 (42.1) 46 (45.1)  
 III 25 (12.8) 12 (9.9) 12 (11.8)  
 IV 38 (19.5) 19 (15.7) 17 (16.7)  
 Unknown 21 (10.8) 15 (12.4) 3 (2.9)  
  1. ap-values were obtained from one-way ANOVA for continuous variables and Pearson’s chi-square test for categorical variables
  2. BC breast cancer