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Table 1 Number of cancers and type of organ affected by cancer in patients followed up after prophylactic surgery

From: Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA1 mutation carriers and postoperative incidence of peritoneal and breast cancers

  

No.

  

Number %/(n)

All primary breast cancers %/(n)

All breast cancers %/(n)

All primary peritoneal and breast cancers %/(n)

Total %/(n)

Organ

      

Peritoneum

1.03 % (2/195)

-

-

5.64 % (11/195)

8.21 % (16/195)

Breast

Primary

3.08 %(6/195)

4.63 %(9/195)

7.18 %(14/195)

II – primary

1.54 % (3/195)

Recurrence

2.56 % (5/195)

N/A

N/A