IL17A and breast cancer: Besides that, the comparison of ORs for analyzing the risk association of IL-17A rs3748067 between breast and cervical cancer patients (Fig. 4) showed that the ORs were higher for two genetic association models of cervical cancer- additive model 1 and overdominant model compared to breast cancer (1.79 vs. 1.25 and 1.84 vs. 1.22, respectively) and associations were also statistically significant.