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Published in final edited form as: Gynecol Oncol. 2019 May 18;154(1):144–149. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2019.05.004

Table 2.

Characteristics of BM diagnosis in women with EOC, by mutation category

Brain Metastasis characteristics	BRCA1/2 positive n=21 n (%)	BRCA1/2 negative n= 42 n (%)	p-value
Time to BM diagnosis (m, 95% CI)	31 (22.6–39.4)	32 (23.7–40.3)	0.78

BM as first recurrence
First recurrence	8 (38)	8 (20)	0.10
Not first recurrence	13 (62)	34 (80)

Extracranial disease
Present	11 (52)	34 (81)	0.02
Absent	10 (48)	8 (19)

Number of BM lesions
1 lesion	5 (24)	15 (36)	0.34
More than 1 lesion	16 (76)	27 (64)

BM, brain metastasis