Correlation between Duffy blood group phenotype and breast cancer incidence

BMC Cancer

Table 5 Correlations between the histological type of 1,979 breast cancers and DBGP status (11 cases of supplementary radical surgery and two cases of occult breast cancer were excluded)

DBGPs	DCIS	ILBC^†	IDBC^‡	MC^§	TC^\|\|	Total
FYa + FYb+	11(5.0%)	12(5.5%)	184(84.8%)	3(1.4%)	8 (3.7%)	218(100%)^¶
FYa + FYb-	112(6.6%)	45(2.7%)	1431(84.9%)	37(2.2%)	61(3.6%)	1686(100%)^††
FYa-FYb+	1 (1.6%)	1 (1.6%)	57(91.9%)	1(1.6%)	2(3.2%)	62(100%)
FYa-FYb-	1 (7.7%)	1(7.7%)	11(84.6%)	0	0	13(100%)
Total	125	59	1683	41	71	1979

^† ILBC = invasive lobular breast cancer.
^‡ IDBC = invasive ductal breast carcinoma.
^§ MC = mucinous carcinoma.
^|| TC = tubular carcinoma.
^¶ One case of supplementary radical operation.
^†† 10 cases of supplementary radical surgery and two cases of occult breast cancer were excluded because of the lack of a primary lesion.

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