Table 3 Breast cancer risk
From: Health status among black African-born women in Kansas City: a preliminary assessment
Question | N | Percent |
|---|---|---|
Do you smoke? | 26 | |
No | 26 | 100 |
At what age did you have your first child? | 14 | |
19–24 years | 7 | 50 |
25–30 years | 7 | 50 |
Have you been told by doctor or provider that you have breast cancer? | 27 | |
No | 27 | 100 |
Have anyone in your family, on your mother’s side or father’s side ever had breast cancer? | 27 | |
No | 22 | 81.5 |
Yes | 3 | 11.1 |
Don’t know/not sure | 2 | 7.4 |
Have you ever had a breast biopsy? | 27 | |
No | 24 | 88.9 |
Have you been told by a doctor or health professional that you have dense breast tissue? | 28 | |
No | 26 | 92.8 |
Yes | 1 | 3.6 |
Don’t know/not sure | 1 | 3.6 |
Have you ever had radiation therapy to the chest or neck area as treatment for another cancer? | 28 | |
No | 27 | 96.4 |
Don’t know/not sure | 1 | 3.6 |
Including you, has anyone in your family ever been told or tested for hereditary breast cancer with changes in BRCA1/BRCA2 genes? | 28 | |
No | 22 | 78.6 |
Yes | 1 | 3.6 |
Don’t know/not sure | 5 | 17.8 |