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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Apr 11;181(2):423–434. doi: 10.1007/s10549-020-05611-8

Table 2.

Description of main patient and clinical factors used for evaluation of the models and formula

Studya/geographic area Europe —otherb Europe—Scandinavia Europe—United Kingdom Netherlands— BOSOM Netherlands— EMC Netherlands— NCR United States and Australia
N 15,183 12,928 11,921 3760 3390 83,138 2436
Age at first diagnosis, years (%)
 < 30 152 (1.0) 46 (0.4) 156 (1.3) 108 (2.9) 46 (1.4) 388 (0.5) 41 (1.7)
 30–39 1252 (8.2) 489 (3.8) 1811 (15.2) 842 (22.4) 374 (11.0) 4241 (5.1) 494 (20.3)
 40 + 13,779 (90.8) 12,393 (95.9) 9954 (83.5) 2810 (74.7) 2970 (87.6) 78,509 (94.4) 1901 (78.0)
 Age at first birth = unknown (%) 15,183 (100.0) 12,928 (100.0) 11,921 (100.0) 3760 (100.0) 3390 (100.0) 83,138 (100.0) 2436 (100.0)
Family history (%)
 Yes 2123 (14.0) 818 (6.3) 1371 (11.5) 737 (19.6) 591 (17.4) 0 (0.0) 319 (13.1)
 No 8057 (53.1) 3158 (24.4) 8210 (68.9) 1177 (31.3) 2482 (73.2) 0 (0.0) 1498 (61.5)
 Unknown 5003 (33.0) 8952 (69.2) 2340 (19.6) 1846 (49.1) 317 (9.4) 83,138 (100.0) 619 (25.4)
First BC type = Pure invasive (%) 15,183 (100.0) 12,928 (100.0) 11,921 (100.0) 3760 (100.0) 3390 (100.0) 83,138 (100.0) 2436 (100.0)
Breast density = unknown (%) 15,183 (100.0) 12,928 (100.0) 11,921 (100.0) 3760 (100.0) 3390 (100.0) 83,138 (100.0) 2436 (100.0)
ER status (%)
 Negative 3387 (22.3) 1746 (13.5) 1718 (14.4) 896 (23.8) 842 (24.8) 14,591 (17.6) 445 (18.3)
 Positive 10,071 (66.3) 9401 (72.7) 7175 (60.2) 2024 (53.8) 2427 (71.6) 64,790 (77.9) 1572 (64.5)
 Unknown 1725 (11.4) 1781 (13.8) 3028 (25.4) 840 (22.3) 121 (3.6) 3757 (4.5) 419 (17.2)
High-risk pre-neoplasia = unknow n (%) 15,183 (100.0) 12,928 (100.0) 11,921 (100.0) 3760 (100.0) 3390 (100.0) 83,138 (100.0) 2436 (100.0)
Anti-estrogen therapy (%)
 Yes 7868 (51.8) 6434 (49.8) 8712 (73.1) 809 (21.5) 1559 (46.0) 40,214 (48.4) 363 (14.9)
 No 4570 (30.1) 1947 (15.1) 2046 (17.2) 2739 (72.8) 1821 (53.7) 42,924 (51.6) 8 (0.3)
 Unknown 2745 (18.1) 4547 (35.2) 1163 (9.8) 212 (5.6) 10 (0.3) 0 (0.0) 2065 (84.8)
CBC cumulative incidence (%)
 3-year (95% CI) 1.0 (0.8–1.2) 0.7 (0.5–0.9) 0.5 (0.3–0.7) 1.7 (1.3–2.1) 1.7 (1.2–2.1) 1.3 (1.2–1.4) 1.8 (0.8–2.8)
 5-year (95% CI) 1.6 (1.4–1.9) 1.0 (0.8–1.3) 1.0 (0.8–1.3) 3.0 (2.5–3.6) 2.6 (2.1–3.2) 2.4 (2.3–2.5) 2.8 (1.7–3.8)
 10-year (95% CI) 3.5 (3.1–3.9) 2.1 (1.7–2.4) 1.3 (1.0–1.5) 5.5 (4.7–6.2) 5.7 (4.9–6.6) 4.6 (4.5–4.8) 4.1 (3.0–5.3)

More details about the main patient and clinical characteristics by study are available in the supplementary information of [5]

BOSOM Breast Cancer Outcome Study of Mutation carriers, EMC Erasmus Medical Center, NCR Netherlands Cancer Registry, BC breast cancer, ER estrogen receptor, CBC contralateral breast cancer, CI confidence interval

a

The studies denoted with Europe and United States and Australia are part of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

b

Europe—other geographic area included studies from Belgium (1), Germany (2), Netherlands (2) and Poland (2)