Table 1 Incidence rate ratios by ethnic group and cancer type, relative to UK population (assuming 2016 census ethnicity distributions).

From: Adapting the BOADICEA breast and ovarian cancer risk models for the ethnically diverse UK population

Ethnicities

Breast cancer (women)

Ovarian cancer

Prostate cancer

Pancreatic cancer (women)

Pancreatic cancer (men)

White

1.037

1.045

1.002

1.028

1.029

Black

0.84

0.69

2.094

1.234

1.111

Asian

0.747

0.752

0.541

0.638

0.689

Mixed

0.653

0.533

0.782

0.781

0.782

  1. South and East Asian ethnicities were grouped into a single Asian group due to small numbers.
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