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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009 Mar 20;118(3):583–592. doi: 10.1007/s10549-009-0375-4

Table 3.

Logistic regression models predicting an accurate self-report of prior breast cancer (based on women with questionnaires from 1996–2006 in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium; 24,631 women with a prior breast cancer; 20,303 with a prior invasive cancer, 4,328 with a prior DCIS)

Variable Sensitivitya (All)
Sensitivitya (Invasive)
Sensitivitya (DCIS)
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Age at questionnaire, years
 18–39 1.84 0.98–3.95 2.54 1.12–7.29 1.02 0.39–3.54
 40–49 1.00 1.00 1.00
 50–59 1.11 0.88–1.40 1.17 0.86–1.59 1.11 0.77–1.57
 60–69 0.91 0.72–1.15 0.93 0.69–1.26 0.94 0.65–1.35
 70–79 0.70 0.55–0.88 0.71 0.52–0.95 0.76 0.52–1.10
 ≥80 0.41 0.32–0.52 0.40 0.29–0.55 0.46 0.30–0.69
Race/ethnicity
 White, non-Hispanic 1.00 1.00 1.00
 African American, non-Hispanic 0.51 0.39–0.69 0.70 0.47–1.08 0.37 0.24–0.58
 Hispanic 0.74 0.57–0.96 0.82 0.61–1.14 0.62 0.40–0.99
 Asian/Pacific Islander 0.41 0.34–0.50 0.38 0.30–0.49 0.47 0.35–0.63
 Native American 0.45 0.27–0.79 0.65 0.34–1.37 0.23 0.10–0.62
 Mixed/other 0.61 0.40–0.99 0.60 0.36–1.09 0.69 0.34–1.59
Education
 Some high school or less 1.00 1.00 1.00
 High school graduate 1.45 1.19–1.77 1.68 1.32–2.14 1.07 0.75–1.52
 Some college 1.96 1.59–2.42 2.16 1.67–2.80 1.61 1.11–2.32
 College or postgraduate 2.11 1.71–2.58 2.26 1.76–2.91 1.81 1.26–2.57
Family history of breast cancer
 No 1.00 1.00 1.00
 Yes 1.45 1.23–1.71 1.66 1.34–2.09 1.17 0.91–1.51
Type of prior breast cancer (most advanced)
 Invasive 3.54 3.10–4.04
 DCIS 1.00
Time since most recent breast cancer, years
 1–2 1.00 1.00 1.00
 3–4 0.95 0.80–1.13 1.14 0.91–1.44 0.71 0.54–0.93
 5–9 0.92 0.77–1.09 1.04 0.84–1.29 0.74 0.56–0.97
 ≥10 0.97 0.80–1.19 1.01 0.80–1.29 0.92 0.65–1.30

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ.

a

Model adjusts for mammography registry in addition to all factors listed in the table.