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Table 1 Description of the population based patient material

From: Breast cancer patients with lobular cancer more commonly have a father than a mother diagnosed with cancer

 

All

Ductal

Lobular

Tubular

Medullary

Mucinous

Other

Age at diagnosis: median(range)

56 (23-89)

58 (24-89)

60 (30-84)

55 (35-79)

52 (31-77)

59 (36-79)

55 (23-87)

 

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Number of cases:

1676

695 (41)

141 (8)

43 (3)

27 (2)

25 (1)

745 (44)

Age at diagnosis:

       

   20-39

147 (9)

57 (8)

7 (5)

4 (9)

4 (15)

2 (8)

73 (10)

   40-59

848 (51)

336 (48)

62 (44)

23 (53)

13 (48)

10 (40)

404 (54)

   60-69

422 (25)

175 (25)

49 (35)

12 (28)

6 (22)

8 (32)

172 (23)

   70-89

258 (15)

127 (18)

23 (16)

4 (9)

4 (15)

5 (20)

95 (13)

Cancer in 1° relatives:

       

No family history of cancer

700 (42)

279 (40)

52 (37)

19 (44)

13 (48)

12 (48)

325 (44)

Child

20 (1)

13 (2)

0 (0)

1 (2)

0 (0)

0 (0)

8 (1)

Brother

83 (5)

47 (7)

10 (7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

3 (12)

23 (3)

Sister:

       

   -all diagnoses

213 (13)

88 (13)

23 (16)

9 (21)

4 (15)

2 (8)

87 (12)

   -not including bc

115 (7)

49 (7)

10 (7)

3 (7)

3 (11)

1 (4)

49 (7)

Father:

257 (15)

121 (17)

38 (27)

7 (16)

2 (7)

4 (16)

151 0)

   - Prostate

67 (4)

28 (4)

8 (6)

2 (5)

1 (4)

2 (8)

26 (3)

Mother:

       

   - all diagnoses

357 (21)

178 (26)

34 (24)

5 (12)

3 (11)

5 (20)

152 (20)

   - not including bc

219 (13)

116 (17)

19 (13)

4 (9)

3 (11)

1 (4)

92 (12)

Unknown family history

13 (1)

8 (1)

1 (1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

4 (1)

Family history of bc:

       

No family history of bc

1131 (67)

465 (67)

93 (66)

28 (65)

20 (74)

18 (72)

507 (68)

Vertical family history

381 (23)

162 (23)

30 (21)

8 (19)

5 (19)

5 (20)

171 (23)

Horizontal family history

84 (5)

33 (5)

11 (8)

7 (16)

0 (0)

1 (4)

32 (4)

Cousin family history

67 (4)

27 (4)

6 (4)

0 (0)

2 (7)

1 (4)

31 (4)

Ever-use of HRT:

328 (19)

137 (20)

39 (28)

12 (28)

4 (15)

3 (12)

133 (18)

Hormone receptor status:

       

ER-positive

744 (44)

352 (51)

90 (64)

13 (30)

1 (4)

13 (52)

275 (37)

ER-negative

351 (21)

154 (22)

14 (10)

6 (14)

16 (59)

5 (20)

156 (21)

ER-unknown

581 (35)

189 (27)

37 (26)

24 (56)

10 (37)

7 (28)

314 (42)

PR-positive

611 (36)

294 (42)

70 (50)

10 (23)

2 (7)

9 (36)

226 (30)

PR-negative

446 (27)

196 (28)

32 (23)

9 (21)

15 (56)

9 (36)

185 (25)

PR-unknown

619 (37)

205 (30)

39 (27)

24 (56)

10 (37)

7 (28)

334 (45)

  1. bc = breast cancer