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Table 1 The FHS-7 questionnaire: intra-class correlation (ICC) between responses to individual questions in two settings: primary care unit (PCU) and immediately before genetic cancer risk assessment (GCRA) and total of positive answers at GCRA interview.

From: Development and validation of a simple questionnaire for the identification of hereditary breast cancer in primary care

#

Question

Positive answers

ICC

(PCU/GCRA)

1

Did any of your 1st degree relatives have breast or ovarian cancer?

348 (19.4%)

0.87

2

Did any of your relatives have bilateral breast cancer?

84 (4.7%)

0.56

3

Did any man in your family have breast cancer?

2 (0.1%)

0.33

4

Did any woman in your family have breast and ovarian cancer?

5 (0.3%)

0.08

5

Did any woman in your family have breast cancer before the age of 50 years?

537 (29.9%)

0.79

6

Do you have 2 or more relatives with breast and/or ovarian cancer?

221 (12.2%)

0.58

7

Do you have 2 or more relatives with breast and/or bowel cancer?

251 (14.0%)

0.53