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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2019 May 23;125(18):3131–3138. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32198

Table 2. Estimated relative risks (RR) for breast cancer of the same histologic subgroup, and for breast cancer of any histology in first-degree relatives (FDR) of proband breast cancer cases by histologic subgroup.

CI: 95% confidence interval; Exp: expected; Obs: observed

Same histology subgroup Any breast cancer histology
Subgroup #FDRs Obs Exp P value RR (CI) Obs Exp P value RR (CI)
Breast cancer 190,576 -- -- -- -- 5,846 3,308.2 <0.001 1.77 (1.72,1.81)
Angiosarcoma 96 0 0 6 2.3 0.03 2.59 (1.13, 5.63)
Apocrine 436 0 0.02 20 7.84 0.0002 2.55 (1.56, 3.94)
Inflammatory 1493 0 0.2 42 26.4 0.0046 1.59 (1.14, 2.15)
Lobular 14,097 48 18.2 <0.001 2.64 (1.95, 3.50) 551 248.4 <0.001 2.22 (2.04, 2.41)
Mucinous 5,056 6 2.2 0.025 2.73 (1.19, 5.95) 168 90.4 <0.001 1.86 (1.59, 2.16)
Phyllodes 251 0 0.01 5 3.97 0.61 1.26 (0.41, 2.94)
Tubular 1264 0 0.15 47 23.6 1.8e-5 2.00 (1.47, 2.65)
Medullary 3,058 0 0.79 102 54.1 <0.001 1.88 (1.54, 2.29)
Metaplastic 313 0 0.01 9 5.43 0.099 1.66 (0.76, 3.15)