Table 1 Characteristics of breast cancer survivors expressing possible desire for future biological children at baseline and/or year 1 (N = 100).

Participant characteristics	Number of participants
Age at cancer diagnosis, years
18–40	90
41–45	9
> 45	1
Race
White	92
Non-white or choose not to disclose	8
Ethnicity
Not Hispanic or Latino	96
Hispanic or Latino or choose not to disclose	4
Nodal disease at diagnosis
N0 or NX	72
N1–N3	28
Metastatic disease at diagnosis
M0 or MX	98
M1	2
ER status
ER positive	81
ER negative/missing	19
Chemotherapy
Yes	68
No	32
Radiation therapy
Yes	45
No/missing	55
Surgical status
Mastectomy	78
Breast-conserving surgery	20
No surgery or missing	2
Endocrine therapy
Yes	61
No/missing	39
Education
High school degree and/or vocational education	5
Some college, associate degree, or bachelor’s degree	46
Graduate school	31
Missing	18
Marital status
Married or living with partner	63
Separated, divorced, widowed, or never married	24
Missing	17
Menopausal status
Periods have stopped	5
Periods have not stopped	59
Not sure/missing	36
Pregnancy history
Previously pregnant	40
Pregnancy resulting in ≥ 1 live birth(s)	31
Never been pregnant/missing	60

For marital status, some respondents selected more than one option. Education history, marital status, menopausal status, and pregnancy history were self-reported on the baseline survey.

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