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Table 1 Characteristics of the eligible sample for a survey of Utah cancer survivors

	Full sample		Paper		Web		P
	N	Col. %	N	Col. %	N	Col. %	P
All cases	446	100.0	226	100.0	220	100.0
Time since diagnosis¹							0.805
Long-term	192	43.0	96	42.5	96	43.6
Short-term	254	57.0	130	57.5	124	56.4
Sex							0.803
Female	252	56.5	129	57.1	123	55.9
Male	194	43.5	97	42.9	97	44.1
Current age							0.600
< 40	74	16.6	35	15.5	39	17.7
40–49	126	28.3	68	30.1	58	26.4
50–59	171	38.3	82	36.3	89	40.5
> =60	75	16.8	41	18.1	34	15.5
Diagnosis age							0.882
< 40	102	22.9	53	23.5	49	22.3
40–49	212	47.5	104	46.0	108	49.1
50–59	98	22.0	50	22.1	48	21.8
> =60	34	7.6	19	8.4	15	6.8
Race²							0.650
White	416	93.3	212	93.8	204	92.7
Nonwhite	30	6.7	14	6.2	16	7.3
Ethnicity³							0.903
Hispanic	68	15.5	34	15.3	34	15.8
Non-Hispanic	372	84.5	189	84.8	183	84.3
Geography							0.093
Rural	61	13.7	37	16.4	24	10.9
Metropolitan	385	86.3	189	83.6	196	89.1
Cancer site							0.992
Colorectal	128	28.7	63	27.9	65	29.6
Myeloma	64	14.4	32	14.2	32	14.6
Breast	97	21.8	51	22.6	46	20.9
Ovarian	63	14.1	32	14.2	31	14.1
Prostate	94	21.1	48	21.2	46	20.9
Stage at diagnosis							0.707
In situ	24	5.4	10	4.4	14	6.4
Localized	211	47.3	111	49.1	100	45.5
Regional	114	25.6	55	24.3	59	26.8
Distant⁴	97	21.8	50	22.1	47	21.4

1. “Long-term” survivors were defined as > 5 years from diagnosis for breast, colorectal, and prostate and > 3 years for myeloma and ovarian cancer. “Short-term” survivors were those < 1 year from diagnosis as of sample selection (September 2016)
2. Due to small counts, all races other than white have been grouped for analysis
3. Ethnicity could not be established for 6 individuals. Percentages based on total number of survivors with ethnicity data
4. Because fewer than 5 sample members were unstaged, they have been grouped together with distant stage to maintain confidentiality

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