Cumulative Risk of Women Ovarian Cancer BRCA2 Mutation

This dataset, BRCA2OvarianCancer_df, is a data frame containing data on the cumulative risk of ovarian cancer in women with the BRCA2 mutation as a function of their age. The dataset includes 63 observations, with each entry representing the cumulative risk at a specific age (in years).

Usage

data(BRCA2OvarianCancer_df)

Format

A data frame with 63 observations and 2 variables:

age

Age of the individual in years (numeric).

cumRisk

Cumulative risk of ovarian cancer at that age (numeric).

Source

Data taken from the riskyr package. Based on Figure 2 (p. 2408) of Kuchenbaecker, K. B., Hopper, J. L., Barnes, D. R., Phillips, K. A., Mooij, T. M., Roos-Blom, M. J., ... & BRCA1 and BRCA2 Cohort Consortium (2017). Risks of breast, ovarian, and contralateral breast cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. JAMA, 317 (23), 2402–2416. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.7112

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'BRCA2OvarianCancer_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the OncoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix '_df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.