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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Aug 13;71(12):e31271. doi: 10.1002/pbc.31271

TABLE 3.

Risk of cancer death in the PCCC cohort among patients without genetic abnormalities and those with a Down syndrome diagnosis (N = 55,018).

Non-genetic Down syndrome
Risk factor At risk
N = 50,069
Cancer deaths
N = 152
aHR 95% CI At risk
N = 4949
Cancer deaths
N = 42
aHR 95% CI
Overall 1.0 3.63 2.52–5.24
Demographic
Sex
 Female 23,157 64 1.0 2574 20 1.0
 Male 26,912 88 1.15 0.83–1.59 2375 22 1.17 0.64–2.15
Race
 White 14,693 52 1.0 1537 12 1.0
 Black 2883 10 1.05 0.53–2.07 343 0 N/A
 Othera 521 3 N/A 47 2 N/A
 Unknown 31,972 87 0.68 0.44–1.04 3022 28 1.05 0.46–2.42
Ethnicity
 Not Hispanic 15,118 49 1.0 1627 11 1.0
 Hispanic 1358 3 N/A 169 7 5.43 1.87–15.77
 Unknown 33,593 100 1.32 0.86–2.05 3153 24 1.03 0.43–2.46
Clinical
Primary diagnosis
 PDA 4583 14 Ref 294 3 Ref
 Left to right shuntb 11,200 19 0.53 0.26–1.05 3968 31 1.02 0.30–3.44
 LHOL 7765 21 0.74 0.37–1.49 69 0 N/A
 APVR 1810 6 1.03 0.39–2.72 7 0 N/A
 RVOTO 7325 14 0.58 0.27–1.23 280 4 1.38 0.30–6.42
 TGA physiology 3423 8 0.69 0.28–1.73 7 0 N/A
 Truncus arteriosus 556 1 N/A 0.09–5.52 5 0 N/A
 Miscellaneousc 7332 30 1.25 0.65–2.39 231 3 1.09 0.21–5.66
 Single ventricle 6075 39 2.74 1.43–5.24 88 1 1.45 0.14–15.38
CHD severity
 Mild 13,988 28 Ref 1667 8 Ref
 Moderate 16,396 34 1.01 0.61–1.67 3036 29 2.52 1.13–5.58
 Severe 2V 8522 29 1.82 1.04–3.20 111 3 N/A
 Single ventricle 6075 39 4.68 2.77–7.91 88 1 N/A
 Unclassifiable 5088 22 2.01 1.13–3.58 47 1 5.41 0.65–44.98
Cyanotic
 No 29,053 74 Ref 4494 34 Ref
 Yes 17,483 66 1.62 1.13–2.32 427 8 1.94 0.84–4.50
 Unclassifiable 3533 12 1.37 0.74–2.53 28 0 N/A
Age at first intervention
 Neonate (0 to <28 days) 12,078 41 Ref 321 7 Ref
 Infant (28 days to <1 year) 12,271 30 0.61 0.38–0.97 3141 17 0.19 0.08–0.47
 Young child (1 to <10 years) 18,856 51 0.61 0.40–0.92 1220 15 0.39 0.16–0.95
 Older child (10 to <21 years) 6864 30 1.05 0.65–1.69 267 3 N/A

Note: N/A = not available because of wide confidence intervals and interpretability issues when <5 deaths contributed to aHRs. Numbers in bold indicate statistical significance at p < .05.

Abbreviations: aHR, adjusted hazard ratio; APVR, anomalous pulmonary venous return; CHD, congenital heart defect; CI, confidence interval; LHOL, left heart obstructive lesion; PCCC, Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium; PDA, patent ductus arteriosus; RVOTO, right ventricular outflow tract obstruction; TGA, transposition of the great arteries.

a

Includes “Asian,” “Native American,” “More than one,” “Pacific Islander,” and “Other.”

b

Other than PDA.

c

Miscellaneous lesions not classifiable by a single major pathophysiology.