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Projecting individualized absolute invasive breast cancer risk in African American women

Multicenter Study

. 2007 Dec 5;99(23):1782-92. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djm223. Epub 2007 Nov 27. Projecting individualized absolute invasive breast cancer risk in African American women Joseph P Costantino, David Pee, Melissa Bondy, Lisa Newman, Mano Selvan, Garnet L Anderson, Kathleen E Malone, Polly A Marchbanks, Worta McCaskill-Stevens, Sandra A Norman, Michael S Simon, Robert Spirtas, Giske Ursin, Leslie Bernstein

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¹ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza South Rm 8032, Bethesda, MD 20892-7244, USA. gailm@mail.nih.gov

PMID: 18042936
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djm223

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Projecting individualized absolute invasive breast cancer risk in African American women

Mitchell H Gail et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007.

. 2007 Dec 5;99(23):1782-92. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djm223. Epub 2007 Nov 27. Authors Mitchell H Gail¹, Joseph P Costantino, David Pee, Melissa Bondy, Lisa Newman, Mano Selvan, Garnet L Anderson, Kathleen E Malone, Polly A Marchbanks, Worta McCaskill-Stevens, Sandra A Norman, Michael S Simon, Robert Spirtas, Giske Ursin, Leslie Bernstein Affiliation

¹ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza South Rm 8032, Bethesda, MD 20892-7244, USA. gailm@mail.nih.gov

PMID: 18042936
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djm223

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J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Aug 6;100(15):1118
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Mar 5;100(5):373

Abstract

Background: The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is widely used for counseling and determining eligibility for breast cancer prevention trials, although its validity for projecting risk in African American women is uncertain. We developed a model for projecting absolute risk of invasive breast cancer in African American women and compared its projections with those from the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool.

Methods: Data from 1607 African American women with invasive breast cancer and 1647 African American control subjects in the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences (CARE) Study were used to compute relative and attributable risks that were based on age at menarche, number of affected mother or sisters, and number of previous benign biopsy examinations. Absolute risks were obtained by combining this information with data on invasive breast cancer incidence in African American women from the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program and with national mortality data. Eligibility screening data from the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) trial were used to determine how the new model would affect eligibility, and independent data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) were used to assess how well numbers of invasive breast cancers predicted by the new model agreed with observed cancers.

Results: Tables and graphs for estimating relative risks and projecting absolute invasive breast cancer risk with confidence intervals were developed for African American women. Relative risks for family history and number of biopsies and attributable risks estimated from the CARE population were lower than those from the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool, as was the discriminatory accuracy (i.e., concordance). Using eligibility screening data from the STAR trial, we estimated that 30.3% of African American women would have had 5-year invasive breast cancer risks of at least 1.66% by use of the CARE model, compared with only 14.5% by use of the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool. The numbers of cancers predicted by the CARE model agreed well with observed numbers of cancers (i.e., it was well calibrated) in data from the WHI, except that it underestimated risk in African American women with breast biopsy examinations.

Conclusions: The CARE model usually gave higher risk estimates for African American women than the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool and is recommended for counseling African American women regarding their risk of breast cancer.

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