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Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2021 Aug 5;127(23):4393–4402. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33812

TABLE 1.

Patient Characteristics, N = 136

No. of Patients (%)
Characteristic Germline BRCA Cohort Somatic BRCA Cohort
Sex gBRCA, n = 116 sBRCA, n = 20
 Men 66 (57) 8 (40)
 Women 50 (43) 12 (60)
Age at diagnosis, y
 Median [range], y 60 [33-82] 63 [25-83]
 <40 4 (3) 1 (5)
 40-49 10 (9) 2 (10)
 50-59 42 (36) 4 (20)
 60-69 33 (28) 6 (30)
 70-79 22 (19) 6 (30)
 >80 5 (4) 1 (5)
Histology
 Adenocarcinoma 112 (96) 19 (95)
 Adenosquamous 1 (1)
 Acinar 3 (3) 1 (5)
Stage at diagnosis
 I/II 30 (26) 5 (25)
 III 17 (15) 3 (15)
 IV 69 (59) 12 (60)
Personal history of BRCA-assoc cancer
 Yes 27 (23) 0 (0)
Type of BRCA-assoc cancer: Personal history gBRCA, n = 27 sBRCA, n = 1
 Breast 19 (71)
 Prostate 6 (22)
 Breast and ovarian 2 (7)
BRCA-assoc cancer in first-degree relatives gBRCA, n = 116 sBRCA, n = 20
 Yes 65 (56) 4 (20)
Pancreatic cancer in first-degree relatives
 Yes 12 (10) 1 (5)
Type of BRCA mutation
BRCA1 33 (28) 4 (20)
BRCA2 83 (72) 16 (80)
Zygosity
 Biallelic 65 (89) 12 (60)
 Heterozygous 8 (11) 8 (40)
 Unknown/indeterminate 43
AJ founder gBRCA mutation
 Yes 59 (51)
 No 57 (49)
Tumor mutation burden: Median [range], mt/Mb 4.40 [0.0-13.2] 5.10 [1.80-9.70]

Abbreviations: AJ, Ashkenazi Jewish; assoc, associated; gBRCA, germline BRCA mutation; sBRCA, somatic BRCA mutation; mt/Mb, mutations per megabase.