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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2008 Sep 30;27(22):4532–4548. doi: 10.1002/sim.3302

Table I.

Effect on the BRCAPRO carrier probability of excluding vs. including all non-breast/ovary cancers into BRCAPRO for families based on figure 1. Non-breast/ovary cancers are included as per the methods of section 2.4.

Family Excluding non-breast/ovary cancers Including non-breast/ovary cancers
As in Figure 1 17% 7%
Mother has only ovarian cancer at 67 29% 17%
Mother has no cancer at 67 15% 6%
Sister has only ovarian cancer at 73 52% 32%
Sister has no cancer at 73 11% 5%
Father died at 67 instead of 87 17% 11%