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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2015 Oct 6;121(24):4382–4388. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29664

Table 1.

Patient Baseline Characteristics.

Patient Characteristic (n=175 patients; 176 diagnoses) Number of patients (%)

Age at diagnosis (mean, range) 63 years, 27–87 years

Gender
Male 86 (49.1%)
Female 89 (50.9%)

Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) ancestry 98 (56.0%)

Pathology
Adenocarcinoma NOS 171 (97.7%)
Acinar 2 (1.1%)
Mixed (neuroendocrine, acinar, and ductal/adenocarcinoma features) 3 (1.7%)

Personal Cancer History
>1 Primary cancer 46 (26.3%)
Breast 16 (9.1%)
Prostate 14 (8.0%)
Melanoma 9 (5.1%)
Urinary tract (bladder, renal) 4 (2.3%)
Metachronous pancreas cancer 1 (0.6%)
Other 10 (5.7%)

Family History
FDR and/or SDR with breast cancer:
0 89 (50.9%)
1 57 (32.6)
2 22 (12.6%)
≥3 7 (4.0%)
FDR and/or SDR with ovarian cancer:
0 150 (85.7%)
1 24 (13.7%)
2 1 (0.6%)
≥3 0 (0.0%)
FDR and/or SDR with colorectal cancer:
0 127 (72.6%)
1 38 (21.7%)
2 3 (1.7%)
≥3 7 (4.0%)
FDR and/or SDR with pancreatic cancer:
0 114 (65.1%)
1 50 (28.6%)
2 11 (6.3%)
≥3 0 (0.0%)
Familial Pancreatic cancer (PC in ≥2 FDRs including proband): 40 (22.9%)

FDR = first degree relative; SDR = second degree relative; PC = pancreatic cancer

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