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. 2019 Nov 27;19:1145. doi: 10.1186/s12885-019-6277-x

Table 2.

Number and type of malignancies among individuals of the hereditary breast/ovarian cancer (HBOC) study

Total HBOC study
High risk BRCA1+
n (%)
High risk BRCA2+
n (%)
High risk BRCA-
n (%)
Low risk
n (%)
Navarra Cancer Registry Patients with one or more tumors
 Single tumor 506 (85.3%) 33 (78.6%) 47 (78.3%) 303 (86.1%) 123 (88.5%)
 Multiple tumors (a) 87 (14.7%) 9 (21.4%) 13 (21.7%) 49 (13.9%) 16 (11.5%)
Total 593 42 60 352 139
(a) BRCA1/2 vs Low Risk: OR = 2.11 95%CI = 1.04 to 4.33, p-value = 0.038
Tumors by affected tissue
 BREAST 531 (76.6%) 30 (55.6%) 53 (70.7%) 327 (80.5%) 120 (76.4%)
 OVARY 55 (7.9%) 13 (24.1%) 7 (9.3%) 27 (6.6%) 8 (5.1%)
 SKIN 46 (6.6%) 6 (11.1%) 4 (5.3%) 24 (5.9%) 12 (7.6%)
 ENDOMETRIUM 13 (1.9%) 1 (1.8%) 2 (2.7%) 7 (1.7%) 3 (1.9%)
 PANCREAS 5 (0.7%) 2 (3.7%) 0 0 3 (1.9%)
 COLON 5 (0.7%) 0 1 (1.3%) 4 (1%) 0
 PROSTATE GLAND 3 (0.4%) 0 2 (2.7%) 0 1 (0.6%)
 OTHERS 35 (5.1%) 2 (3.7%) 6 (8%) 17 (4.2%) 10 (6.4%)
TOTAL 693 54 75 406 157