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. 2005 Feb 8;105(11):4215–4222. doi: 10.1182/blood-2005-01-0035

Table 4.

Cause-specific standardized mortality ratios and 95% confidence interval by sex and cancer diagnosis

Subsequent cancer
Cardiac dysfunction
Pulmonary compromise
External causes
Primary disease
No. SMR (95% CI) No. SMR (95% CI) No. SMR (95% CI) No. SMR (95% CI) No. SMR (95% CI)
All cases; N = 251* 62 12.0 (9.2-15.2) 6 1.6 (0.6-3.2) 5 5.6 (1.8-11.6) 3 1.2 (0.2-2.9) 140 27.2 (22.9-31.9)
Sex
   Male; n = 154 38 11.2 (7.9-15.9) 2 0.6 (0.1-1.8) 4 6.7 (1.7-14.9) 2 0.9 (0.1-2.5) 85 25.4 (20.3-31.1)
   Female; n = 97 24 12.5 (8.0-18.0) 4 4.4 (1.1-9.8) 1 3.1 (0-12.3) 1 2.0 (0-7.9) 55 28.5 (21.5-36.5)
Diagnosis
   Acute myeloid leukemia; n = 24 9 8.3 (3.8-14.6) 0 0 0 12 334.4 (172.0-550.4)
   Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; n = 24 4 39.3 (10.2-87.2) 0 1 50.8 (0-199.3) 0 18 2521.7 (1491.3-3821.2)
   Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; n = 112 30 9.0 (6.0-12.4) 4 1.7 (0.4-3.7) 1 1.7 (0-6.7) 3 2.8 (0.5-6.8) 55 182.6 (137.5-234.0)
   Hodgkin disease; n = 91 19 30.1 (18.1-45.2) 2 4.3 (0.4-12.3) 3 29.1 (5.5-71.5) 0 55 9432.7 (7104.5-12090.3)

SMR indicates standardized mortality ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.

*

The second malignancies presented here do not add up to 251. The remaining 35 deaths were due to other treatment-related sequelae (infection, liver, and other treatment-related causes)