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. 2009 Jan 21;101(2):80–87. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djn442

Table 1.

Published studies of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy and cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers*

Study, first author, and year (reference) Study design Patient source No. with/without RRSO
Reported follow-up Mean age at breast cancer (y) Mean age at ovarian cancer (y) Mean age at RRSO (y)
BRCA1 BRCA2 BRCA1/2
Rebbeck et al., 1999 (9) RC NAMC 43/79 NA 43/79 5546 PY B1: RRSO: 44.7 NR B1: 36.8
B1: No RRSO: 43.4
Kauff et al., 2002 (10) PC SIS 56/48 42/24 98/72 2.0 MYFU B1/2: RRSO: 54.5 B1/2: RRSO: 39.8 B1/2: 48.1
B1/2: No RRSO: 48.3 B1/2: No RRSO: 51.2
Rebbeck et al., 2002 (8) RC IMC 219/240 42/52 261/292 8.5 MYFU B1/2: RRSO: 52.5 B1/2: RRSO: 54.9 B1/2: 42.0
B1/2: No RRSO: 50.3 B1/2: No RRSO: 50.3
Rutter et al., 2003 (17) CC ISMC 5/168 0/56 5/223 NA NR NR NR
Eisen et al., 2005 (15) CC IMC 129/2341 36/786 166/3139 NA B1: 38.9 NR NR
B2: 40.9
Kramer et al., 2005 (12) PC NAMC 33/65 NR NR 16.5 MYFU, 11,105 PY B1: RRSO: 47.4 NR NR
B1: No RRSO: 46.5
Domchek et al., 2006 (13) PC IMC 103/191 52/80 155/271 2.5 MYFU B1/2, RRSO: 47.8 B1/2: RRSO: 44.0 B1/2: 44.8
B1/2: No RRSO: 41.7 B1/2: No RRSO: 48.3
Finch et al., 2006 (11) RC IMC 834/546 207/233 1041/779 3.5 MYFU NR B1/2: RRSO: 51.1 B1/2: 46.4
B1/2: No RRSO: 53.8
Chang-Claude et al., 2007 (14) RC EMC NR NR 55/1601 65,675 PY B1/2: 50.1 NR NR
Kauff et al., 2008 (16) PC IMC 325/173 184/110 509/283 3.2 MYFU B1: RRSO: 49.8 B1: RRSO: 46.4
B1: No RRSO: 44.0 B1: No RRSO: 56.2 B1: 46.2
B2: RRSO: 52.5 B2: RRSO: NA B2: 48.8
B2: No RRSO: 53.0 B2: No RRSO: 64.0
*

In all but one of the prospective cohort studies, women with a prior diagnosis of breast cancer were included for the ovarian endpoint. In Domchek et al. (13) all patients were unaffected with breast or ovarian cancer at the start of follow-up, as the study was designed to evaluate the impact of RRSO on cancer incidence as well as disease-specific and overall survival. B1 = BRCA1 mutation carriers; B2 = BRCA2 mutation carriers; B1/2 = combined BRCA1 or BRCA2 group; PC = prospective cohort; RC = retrospective cohort; CC = case–control; NAMC = North American Multicenter Cohort; SIS = single-institution study; IMC = International Multicenter Cohort; ISMC = Israeli Multicenter Cohort; EMC = European Multicenter Cohort; MYFU = mean years of follow-up; PY = person-years; NR = not reported; and NA = not applicable; RRSO = risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy.

In the original publications, the prospective and retrospective cohorts were analyzed by survival/failure time analysis methods; the case–control studies were analyzed by logistic regression.