| Controls | Breast cancer cases | |
Training set | mean (age) ± sd. | 48.8 ± 14.5 | 58.8 ± 12.9 |
range | 18 - 81 | 32 - 91 | |
% above 50 | 51% | 74% | |
Blind validation set | mean (age) ± sd. | 49.0 ± 14.0 | 60.5 ± 13.3 |
range | 20 - 82 | 31 - 93 | |
% above 50 | 53% | 81% |