BRCA1 and cancer: Comparing the performance evaluation metrics in Table 6, from our proposed study we see from the results in "Comparison of KNN and SVM classifiers" section, the recall value for the cancer class ‘Non BRCA1/BRCA2 familial breast cancer’, to be at a high 0.99 in case of SVM using the hyperparameters discussed in "Support vector machine classification model analysis" section, i.e., the default hyperparameters.