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Table 4 Rates of breast cancer by age and ethnic group

From: Breast cancer risk in a screening cohort of Asian and white British/Irish women from Manchester UK

 

White

Asian

 

Women

Breast Cancer

Follow upa

Annual rate

Women

Breast Cancer

Follow upa

Annual rate

Age (y)

N (%)

N (%)

(y)

(per 1000)

N (%)

N (%)

(y)

(per 1000)

Weightsb

46-49

256 (29%)

2 (13%)

1042.4

1.9

10,380 (20%)

164 (15%)

39,679.8

4.1

22

50-54

289 (33%)

9 (60%)

1423.8

6.3

13,526 (26%)

246 (23%)

61,907.0

4.0

22

55-59

152 (17%)

2 (13%)

802.1

2.5

9735 (19%)

184 (17%)

48,530.3

3.8

20

60-64

112 (13%)

1 (7%)

579.8

1.7

9870 (19%)

277 (26%)

48,984.0

5.7

19

65-69

59 (7%)

1 (7%)

310.3

3.2

6700 (13%)

174 (16%)

33,371.6

5.2

17

70-73

11 (1%)

0 (0%)

54.1

0

1588 (3%)

31 (3%)

7819.4

4.0

0

Age-standardized (95% CI)

  

3.2 (1.6 - 5.2)

   

4.5 (4.2-4.8)

  1. aFollow up is the total number of women-years in each group from questionnaire to last follow up
  2. bEuropean standard population (2013) weights. Standardised rates only include women aged 46-69 years due to small number in Asian 70-73 years group