Table 1 Participants’ sociodemographic and clinical data
From: “I have always lived with the disease in the family”: family adaptation to hereditary cancer-risk
n | % | |
|---|---|---|
Sociodemographic characteristics | ||
Gender | ||
Female | 6 | 46.2% |
Male | 7 | 53.8% |
Mean age (range) | 35.08 (22–53) | |
Marital status | ||
Single | 3 | 23.1% |
Married/Living together | 8 | 61.5% |
Divorced | 2 | 15.4% |
Having children | 7 | 53.8% |
Children mean age (range) | 8.70 (3–24) | |
Clinical data | ||
Mean time since genetic testing (range) | 7.15 (2–17) | |
Hereditary cancer syndromes | ||
LS | 5 | 38.5% |
HDGC | 4 | 30.8% |
HBOC | 3 | 23.1% |
FAP | 1 | 7.7% |
Previous history of cancer | 2 | 15.4% |
Risk management approaches | ||
Prophylactic surgery | 9 | 69.3% |
Surveillance according to protocol | 4 | 30.8% |