Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: High frequency of pathogenic germline variants within homologous recombination repair in patients with advanced cancer

 

Total (n = 636)

Patients with pathogenic variant (n = 113)

Gender

Female

321 (50%)

58 (51%)

Male

315 (50%)

53 (49%)

Age at diagnosis

Median, range

57 (16–82)

54 (26–77)

History of prior cancera

103 (16%)

24 (22%)

Tumor type

Colorectal cancer

141 (22%)

27 (24%)

Breast cancer

85 (13%)

16 (14%)

Bile duct cancer

47 (7%)

8 (7%)

Pancreatic cancer

43 (7%)

7 (6%)

NSCLC

33 (5%)

4 (4%)

Prostate cancer

26 (4%)

3 (3%)

Ovarian cancer

23 (4%)

7 (5%)

Urothelial cancer

20 (3%)

5 (4%)

Gastric cancer

20 (3%)

1 (1%)

Cervical cancer

18 (3%)

1 (1%)

Others

17 (3%)

1 (1%)

Cancer of unknown primary origin (CUP)

16 (3%)

4 (4%)

Sarcoma

14 (2%)

3 (3%)

Head and neck cancer

14 (2%)

2 (2%)

Neuroendocrine cancer

13 (2%)

1 (1%)

Malignant Mesothelioma

12 (2%)

7 (6%)

Melanoma

12 (2%)

2 (2%)

Esophageal cancer

11 (2%)

2 (2%)

SCLC

11 (2%)

0

Hepatocellular cancer

10 (2%)

2 (2%)

Adrenocortical cancer

8 (1%)

0

Endometrial cancer

8 (1%)

1 (1%)

Thymoma

8 (1%)

1 (1%)

Renal cell carcinoma

6 (1%)

2 (2%)

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (salivary gland)

5 (1%)

1 (1%)

Myoepithelial carcinoma

4 (0.5%)

0

Glioblastoma

4 (0.5%)

0

Anogenital cancer

3 (0.5%)

0

Germ cell cancer

2 (0.5%)

0

Vulvovaginal cancer

2 (0.5%)

1 (1%)

  1. aBasal cell carcinoma is not included