Table 1 Features of CBCS breast cancer cases and controlsa.

From: Inherited predisposition to breast cancer in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study

 

Cases

Controls

Total

1370 (1.000)

1635 (1.000)

Age at dx or enrollment

20–29

23 (0.017)

10 (0.006)

30–39

212 (0.155)

190 (0.116)

40–49

500 (0.365)

577 (0.353)

50–59

269 (0.196)

385 (0.235)

60–69

256 (0.187)

321 (0.196)

70–74

110 (0.080)

152 (0.093)

Ancestry by self-report

African-American (AA)

586 (0.428)

592 (0.362)

European-American (EA)

765 (0.558)

1016 (0.621)

Other

19 (0.014)

27 (0.017)

Menopausal status

Pre-menopausal

606 (0.528)

624 (0.465)

Post-menopausal

542 (0.472)

719 (0.535)

Did not specify

221 (–)

292 (–)

1o family history

Breast and ovarian cancer

8 (0.006)

4 (0.003)

Breast cancer only

213 (0.160)

194 (0.122)

Ovarian cancer only

26 (0.020)

29 (0.018)

Neither

1083 (0.814)

1365 (0.857)

Unknown

38 (–)

43 (–)

TNBC

Yes

307 (0.254)

 

No

904 (0.746)

 

Unknown

159 (–)

 

Tumor subtype

Basal-like

156 (0.179)

 

Luminal A

475 (0.545)

 

Luminal B

84 (0.096)

 

HER2 + ER−

51 (0.059)

 

Negative for all markers

105 (0.121)

 

Unknown

499 (–)

 

Grade

Grade 1

152 (0.280)

 

Grade 2

165 (0.304)

 

Grade 3

225 (0.415)

 

Unknown

809 (–)

 

Nodal involvement

Yes

466 (0.354)

 

No

849 (0.646)

 

Unknown

36 (–)

 
  1. aIn parentheses, proportions of participants with information.