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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 2.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2007 Oct 2;147(7):441–450. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-147-7-200710020-00002

Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Counselees and Sample Size, by Center *

Center Population Persons Tested, n Men, % Mean Age (SD), y Breast Cancer, n Ovarian Cancer, n No Cancer, n BRCA1 Positive, n BRCA2 Positive, n Reference
BCM Ashkenazi Jewish volunteers 282 0 53.1 (11.8) 33 2 247 6 0 25
City of Hope Counseling clinic 77 0 49.8 (13.0) 47 5 25 13 5 26
Duke University Counseling clinic 275 0 47.8 (10.7) 237 27 22 41 18 27
FHCRC Population-based study 583 0 45.7 (5.1) 320 6 263 22 12 28
Georgetown University Counseling clinic 242 0 52.9 (11.4) 227 20 3 55 23 21
HCI Counseling clinic 61 0 58.5 (15.2) 47 2 12 6 8 -
JHU Counseling clinic 105 3 50.2 (10.3) 57 7 43 0 6 29
Penn Counseling clinic 676 69 50.9 (13.0) 489 82 138 121 53 11, 30
UTSW Counseling clinic 121 7 47.9 (12.8) 67 10 50 23 9 24
UCI Population-based study 803 9 62.5 (13.6) 605 122 87 10 4 31
MDACC Counseling clinic 117 7 51.2 (13.3) 59 8 53 25 18 32
   Total - 3342 95 52.8 (13.1) 2188 291 943 332 156 -
*

BCM = Baylor College of Medicine; FHCRC = Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; HCI = Huntsman Cancer Institute; JHU = Johns Hopkins University; MDACC = M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Penn = University of Pennsylvania; UCI = University of California, Irvine (Orange County); UTSW = University of Texas Southwestern.