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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 14.
Published in final edited form as: Fam Cancer. 2007;6(1):113–119. doi: 10.1007/s10689-006-9112-x

Table 1.

Tumor histology: subtype and stage among BRCA mutation carriers and non-carriers

Tumor type Total sample
(N = 232)
Invasive cancers
(n = 209)
Borderline tumors
(n = 23)
BRCA1+
(n = 20)
BRCA2+
(n = 12)
Total BRCA+
(N = 32)
Total non-carriers
(N = 200)
Serous 135 (58.2%) 121 (57.9%) 14 (60.9%) 14 (70%) 6 (50%) 20 (63%) 115 (57.5%)
Endometrioid 30 (12.9%) 29 (13.9%) 1 (4.3%) 1 (5%) 2 (16.8%) 3 (9%) 27 (13.5%)
Transitional 3 (1.3%) 3 (14.4%) 0 (0%) 1 (5%) 0 (0%) 1 (3%) 2 (0.1%)
Mucinous 19 (8.2%) 13 (6.2%) 6 (26.1%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 19 (9.5%)
Mixed 20 (8.6%) 18 (8.6%) 2 (8.7%) 4 (20%) 1 (8.3%) 5 (16%) 15 (7.5%)
Peritoneal 6 (2.6%) 6 (2.9%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (8.3%) 1 (3%) 5 (2.5%)
Brenner 3 (1.3%) 3 (1.4%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (8.3%) 1 (3%) 1 (1%)
Clear cell 9 (3.9%) 9 (4.3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 9 (4.5%)
Unknown 7 (3.0%) 7 (3.3%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (8.3%) 1 (3%) 6 (3%)
Stage
I 47 (20.3%) 28 (13.4%) 19 (82.6%) 1 (5%) 4 (33.4%) 5 (15.6%) 42 (21.0%)
II 20 (8.6%) 20 (9.6%) 0 (0%) 3 (15%) 1 (8.3%) 4 (12.5%) 16 (8.0%)
III 136 (58.6%) 132 (63.15%) 4 (17.4%) 13 (65%) 6 (50%) 19 (59.4%) 117 (58.5%)
IV 28 (12.1%) 28 (13.4%) 0 (0%) 3 (15%) 1 (8.3%) 4 (12.5%) 24 (12.0%)
Unknown 1 (0.4%) 1 (0.45%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (0.5%)