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. 2023 Feb 3;128(9):1636–1646. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02145-w

Table 2.

Risk factors included in some of the most recently developed and widely used models and currently available tools to support risk calculation.

BCSC [33] BOADICEA [21] Gail [34] Tyrer–Cuzick/IBIS [31] iCARE [32] QCancer10 [36]
Genetic/familial risk factors
 Family history
 Rare pathogenic variants in moderate- and high-risk susceptibility genes
 Polygenic risk score
Demographic factors
 Country of origin (country-specific cancer incidence)
 Birth cohort/decade of birth
 Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry
 Ethnicity (other than European/Ashkenazi Jewish)
Lifestyle factors
 Body mass index
 Height
 Alcohol use
Hormonal/reproductive factors
 Age at menarche
 Oral contraceptive use
 Age at menopause
 Menopausal hormone therapy
 Number of live births
 Age at first live birth
Other factors
 Mammographic density
 History of hyperplasia/benign disease
 History of lobular carcinoma in situ
 Previous breast biopsy
 Manic depression or schizophrenia
 Prior lung, blood or ovarian cancer
Tools to support risk calculation
 Online tool tools.bcsc-scc.org/AdvBC6yearRisk/#/ canrisk.org/ bcrisktool.cancer.gov/ ibis-risk-calculator.magview.com/ qcancer.org/10yr/female/
 Software package for integration within electronic healthcare records

BCSC Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, BOADICEA Breast and Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm, iCARE Individualised Coherent Absolute Risk Estimators.