Official Journal of the Human Genome Organisation
Table 2 Family histories
From: The geography of genetics: an analysis of referral patterns to a cancer genetics service
Number | Percent | Cancer type |
|---|---|---|
5,992 | 55.1 | Breast cancer |
1,468 | 13.5 | Colorectal cancer |
791 | 7.3 | Breast and ovarian cancer |
663 | 6.1 | Ovarian cancer |
589 | 5.4 | Other cancer |
46 | 0.4 | Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) |
24 | 0.2 | Gastric cancer |
13 | 0.1 | Familial adenomatous polyposis coli |
13 | 0.1 | Renal cancer |
12 | 0.1 | Prostate cancer |
9 | 0.1 | von Hippel Lindau syndrome |
1,248 | 11.5 | No data |
10 | 0.1 | Not known, insufficient information in referral letter |