Classification of the 68 German cancer families according to the number of cancers
| No of cancers | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No of breast cancers/family | No of families | Female breast | Male breast | Ov* | Brain | Cervix | Colon | Gyn | Leuk | Liver | Lung | Skin | Panc | Pro | Sarc | Sto | Ut | Vulva | Testis | Other sites† |
| Ov, ovarian cancer; Gyn, gynaecological cancer; Leuk, leukaemia; Panc, pancreatic cancer; Pro, prostate cancer; Sarc, sarcoma; Ut, uterine cancer; Sto, stomach cancer. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| *Including one borderline tumour and three ovarian or uterine cancers. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| †One parotid, one Hodgkin's lymphoma, two eye, one larynx, two bone, one anus, one small intestine, one nose, one oesophagus, one kidney, one fallopian, one rectum, one urinary organ, two bladder, and five unknown sites. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1–2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 25 | 74 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | 17 | 68 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 13 | 63 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 6+ | 9 | 62 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |