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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 3. Estimated relative risks (RR) for breast cancer of the same histologic subgroup, and for breast cancer of any histology in second-degree relatives (SDR) of proband breast cancer cases by histologic subgroup.

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

Same subgroup type Any breast cancer
Subgroup #SDRs Obs Exp P value RR (CI) Obs Exp P value RR (CI)
Breast cancer 559,835 7,395 5,916 <0.001 1.25 (1.22, 1.28)
Angiosarcoma 294 0 0 0.56 1.29 (0.35, 3.32)
Apocrine 1518 0 0.03 15 17.4 0.72 0.87 (0.48, 1.43)
Inflammatory 4,983 0 0.33 66 49.9 0.03 1.32 (1.02, 1.68)
Lobular 46,875 49 31.3 0.003 1.56 (1.16, 2.07) 642 473.3 <0.001 1.36 (1.25, 1.47)
Mucinous 17,889 6 4.6 0.47 1.32 (0.48, 2.86) 251 197.2 2.1e-4 1.27 (1.12, 1.44)
Phyllodes 913 0 0.01 8 10.3 0.64 0.77 (0.33, 1.53)
Tubular 4,252 0 0.21 52 42.9 0.17 1.21 (0.91, 1.59)
Medullary 10,316 0 1.49 115 106.3 0.21 1.08 (0.89, 1.30)
Metaplastic 981 0 0.01 13 10.4 0.25 1.24 (0.66, 2.13)

Observed counts < 5 are censored