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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2010 Sep 1;304(9):967–975. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1237

Table 2.

Risk-Reducing Oophorectomy (RRSO) and Ovarian Cancer (OC) Risk*

No breast cancer prior** Breast cancer prior***
Total BRCA1 BRCA2 Total BRCA1 BRCA2
Total Participants 1557 1003 554 1060 684 376
RRSO (“Exposed”) 465 342 123 474 339 135
N (%) Post-RRSO
Primary Peritoneal
Cancer
6 (2%) 6 (2%) 0 4 (1%) 4 (1%) 0
No RRSO (
“Controls”)
1092 661 431 586 345 241
N (%) Controls
with OC
63 (6%) 49(7%) 14 (3%) 35 (6%) 27(8%) 8 (3%)
Mean Age at
RRSO (Yrs)
43.2 (20.5-79.0) 42.1 (20.5-79.0) 46.2 (32.9-68.5) 47.7 (29.7-75.2) 44.1 (29.7-75.2) 49.1 (30.4-72.9)
Mean Start Age
(Yrs, for Controls)
36.7 (18.1-90.4) 35.4 (18.2-90.4) 38.6 (32.9-68.5) 45.4 (21.9-86.2) 44.2 (21.9-86.2) 47.0 (26.1-77.7)
Mean FU to OC
(Yrs)
6.2 (0.8-17.8) 6.2 (0.8-17.8) 6.0 (0.8-17.8) 4.2 (0.5-13.4) 4.4 (0.5-13.4) 3.3 (0.7-5.8)
Mean Follow-up to
Censoring (Yrs)
5.7 (0.5-27.9) 5.6 (0.5-27.7) 5.8 (0.5-26.9) 4.4 (0.5-24.6) 4.5 (0.5-24.6) 4.1 (0.5-15.4)
Occult Ov Ca^ 9 7 2 13 10 3
HR**** (95% CI);N 0.28 (0.12-0.69);
1367
0.31 (0.12-0.82);
880
No cancer events;
487^^
0.14 (0.04-0.59);
857
0.15 (0.04-0.63);
563
No cancer events;
294
*

Participants censored at death, or last contact.

**

No breast cancer prior to RRSO, or in the controls prior to the start of follow up.

***

Breast cancer allowed prior to RRSO or start of follow up.

****

Adjusted for year of birth, oral contraceptive use; and stratified by center;

^

Found incidentally at the time of RRSO and excluded from analysis;

^^

Adjustment was made for OCP use; those with missing data were excluded from the analysis.