Metadata

Name Primary Malignancy of Breast (pri_breast)
Category Cancers
Sex
Adult Yes
UUID b5f4347d-e15a-4850-a4ac-05c35b369b4e
Definition A thoracic cancer that originates in the mammary gland.

Ontologies

Disease Ontology (DOID) DOID_1612
GWAS Catalogue EFO_0000305
MeSH D001943
SNOMED-CT 254837009
FinnGen C3_BREAST

Key Summary Statistics

Cases from any source

Total 23016
Female (%) 22846 (99%)
Male (%) 170 (1%)

Year first recorded

pri_breast year of first event

Cases linked in all UK Biobank sources

Cross-source concordance

Vertical bars correspond to number of cases per source/intersection; horizontal bars to left correspond to total number of cases per source.

Cross-sourced pri_breast cases

Incidence & prevalence

Sex and age-stratified incidence and prevalence of pri_breast

Baseline prevalence stratified by sex

Female 431.9 (418.22,445.58)
Male 3.36 (2.02,4.7)

Incidence stratified by sex

Female 37.24 (35.61,38.87)
Male 0.27 (0.12,0.42)

Incidence stratified by age

Ages 40-44 14.92 (12.51,17.34)
Ages 45-49 19.13 (16.78,21.48)
Ages 50-54 16.91 (14.86,18.96)
Ages 55-59 19.93 (17.91,21.96)
Ages 60-64 24.24 (22.31,26.17)
Ages 65-69 19.76 (17.77,21.75)

Period prevalence

Methods

Comparison with general population

Sex-standardised prevalence from CALIBER study (Kuan et al. 2019)

CALIBER and UKB pri_breast prevalence comparison for multiple age groups

Population Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
UK Biobank 157 (145,168) 261 (249,272) 405 (393,418)
CALIBER 100 (97,102) 209 (205,214) 350 (344,355)

Stratified by age and Townsend deprivation status

Deprivation status Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
Least deprived 170(142,201) 285(258,313) 416(389,445)
Low 163(136,194) 261(235,288) 403(377,432)
Medium 167(140,196) 238(214,264) 392(366,421)
High 161(137,188) 265(240,292) 417(388,447)
Most deprived 128(108,152) 254(229,281) 396(367,427)

Stratified by age and country

Country Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
England 158(146,172) 266(253,280) 406(392,420)
Scotland 159(128,195) 239(209,271) 397(362,434)
Wales 133(97,178) 240(203,283) 416(370,465)

Risk factors analysis

‘Healthy’ BMI, smoking status ‘never’, or no hypertension (absence of hypertension records) were considered as reference values.

Hazard Ratio (HR) values with P < 0.0002 were considered to show significant association with disease onset after correction for multiple-testing using the Bonferroni method

N=153944, Events=165

Factor Level Hazard Ratio P value
BMI overweight 0.93 (0.64, 1.33) 0.683
BMI obese 0.99 (0.66, 1.49) 0.954
BMI underweight 0 (0, Inf) 0.994
smoking previous 1.57 (1.13, 2.18) 0.00649
smoking current 1.16 (0.66, 2.02) 0.611
hypertension yes 0.69 (0.47, 1.01) 0.0533

Risk factors analysis forest plot

Definition

UK Biobank field id Description Code Value
20001 Cancer code, self-reported 1002 breast cancer
41202 Diagnoses - main ICD10 C50 Malignant neoplasm of breast
41202 Diagnoses - main ICD10 D05 Carcinoma in situ of breast
41204 Diagnoses - secondary ICD10 C50 Malignant neoplasm of breast
41204 Diagnoses - secondary ICD10 D05 Carcinoma in situ of breast
40001 Underlying (primary) cause of death: ICD10 C50 Malignant neoplasm of breast
40001 Underlying (primary) cause of death: ICD10 D05 Carcinoma in situ of breast
40002 Contributory (secondary) causes of death: ICD10 C50 Malignant neoplasm of breast
40002 Contributory (secondary) causes of death: ICD10 D05 Carcinoma in situ of breast
42040 GP clinical event records B340000 Malignant neoplasm of nipple of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B340100 Malignant neoplasm of areola of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B340.00 Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B340z00 Malignant neoplasm of nipple or areola of female breast NOS
42040 GP clinical event records B341.00 Malignant neoplasm of central part of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B342.00 Malignant neoplasm of upper-inner quadrant of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B343.00 Malignant neoplasm of lower-inner quadrant of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B344.00 Malignant neoplasm of upper-outer quadrant of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B345.00 Malignant neoplasm of lower-outer quadrant of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B346.00 Malignant neoplasm of axillary tail of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B347.00 Malignant neoplasm, overlapping lesion of breast
42040 GP clinical event records B34..00 Malignant neoplasm of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B34..11 Ca female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B34y000 Malignant neoplasm of ectopic site of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B34y.00 Malignant neoplasm of other site of female breast
42040 GP clinical event records B34yz00 Malignant neoplasm of other site of female breast NOS
42040 GP clinical event records B34z.00 Malignant neoplasm of female breast NOS
42040 GP clinical event records B350000 Malignant neoplasm of nipple of male breast
42040 GP clinical event records B350100 Malignant neoplasm of areola of male breast
42040 GP clinical event records B350.00 Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola of male breast
42040 GP clinical event records B35..00 Malignant neoplasm of male breast
42040 GP clinical event records B35z000 Malignant neoplasm of ectopic site of male breast
42040 GP clinical event records B35z.00 Malignant neoplasm of other site of male breast
42040 GP clinical event records B35zz00 Malignant neoplasm of male breast NOS
42040 GP clinical event records B36..00 Local recurrence of malignant tumour of breast
42040 GP clinical event records B830000 Lobular carcinoma in situ of breast
42040 GP clinical event records B830100 Intraductal carcinoma in situ of breast
42040 GP clinical event records B830.00 Carcinoma in situ of breast
42040 GP clinical event records BB91.00 [M]Infiltrating duct carcinoma
42040 GP clinical event records BB91.11 [M]Duct carcinoma NOS
42040 GP clinical event records BB91000 [M]Intraductal papillary adenocarcinoma with invasion
42040 GP clinical event records BB96.00 [M]Noninfiltrating intraductal papillary adenocarcinoma
42040 GP clinical event records BB91100 [M]Infiltrating duct and lobular carcinoma
42040 GP clinical event records BB92.00 [M]Comedocarcinoma, noninfiltrating
42040 GP clinical event records BB93.00 [M]Comedocarcinoma NOS
42040 GP clinical event records BB94.00 [M]Juvenile breast carcinoma
42040 GP clinical event records BB94.11 [M]Secretory breast carcinoma
42040 GP clinical event records BB9J.00 [M]Paget’s disease, mammary
42040 GP clinical event records BB9J.11 [M]Paget’s disease, breast
42040 GP clinical event records BB9K000 [M]Paget’s disease and intraductal carcinoma of breast
42040 GP clinical event records BB9K.00 [M]Paget’s disease and infiltrating breast duct carcinoma
42040 GP clinical event records BB9M.00 [M]Intracystic carcinoma NOS
42040 GP clinical event records Byu6.00 [X]Malignant neoplasm of breast
42040 GP clinical event records ByuFG00 [X]Other carcinoma in situ of breast
42040 GP clinical event records ZV10300 [V]Personal history of malignant neoplasm of breast
42040 GP clinical event records X78WW Intraductal carcinoma in situ of breast
42040 GP clinical event records X78WV Lobular carcinoma in situ of breast
42040 GP clinical event records XaFr8 Local recurrence of malignant tumour of breast
40006 Type of cancer: ICD10 C50 Malignant neoplasm of breast
40006 Type of cancer: ICD10 D05 Carcinoma in situ of breast