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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Genet Couns. 2016 Dec 30;26(4):806–813. doi: 10.1007/s10897-016-0057-4

Table 2.

Genetic Counselor (GC) compared with Health History Questionnaire (HHQ) assessment of family history by cancer type and relative degree for the 61 patients in Prevention Program.

Wilcoxon Signed Rank-Sum Generalized Linear Mixed Models

Cancer Type GC HHQ p-value i(β) p-value
First Degree Relative
 Total Relatives Documented 333 339 0.47 0.02 0.82
 Pancreas 50 52 0.50 0.00 >0.99
 Breast 12 12 >0.99 0.00 >0.99
 Ovarian 5 4 >0.99 −0.22 0.74
 Prostate 6 5 >0.99 −0.18 0.76
 Colorectal 1 1 N/A# N/A# N/A#
 Other 21 22 >0.99 0.11 0.68
 No Cancer 228 238 0.55 0.04 0.64
Second Degree Relative
 Total Relatives Documented 847 581 <0.0001@ −0.38 <0.001@
 Pancreas 21 22 >0.99 0.03 0.90
 Breast 18 18 >0.99 −0.04 0.89
 Ovarian 8 5 0.45 0.00 >0.99
 Prostate 8 9 >0.99 0.12 0.81
 Colorectal 11 11 >0.99 −0.08 0.84
 Other 34 32 0.73 0.14 0.46
 No Cancer 710 446 <0.0001@ −0.46 <0.001@
Third Degree Relative
 Total Relatives Documented 828 122 <.0001@ −1.61 <0.001@
 Pancreas 8 3 0.50 −0.81 0.18
 Breast 9 9 >0.99 −0.24 0.55
 Ovarian 2 2 >0.99 0.00 >0.99
 Prostate 2 3 >0.99 −0.51 0.49
 Colorectal 9 3 0.13 −0.92 0.13
 Other 15 14 >.99 0.23 0.45
 No Cancer 766 71 <0.0001@ −2.04 <0.001@
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Significant values were reported, due to the observation that GCs typically document more second- and third-degree relatives compared with HHQ.

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