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. 2008 Feb 12;98(5):870–874. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604241

Table 3. Crude cancer incidence rates in patients and in the general population of French women (by decreasing order of SIR).

  Patients General population      
Second malignancy Crude incidence rates 100 000 PY SIR 95% CI P
Leukaemia 30.4 8.7 2.07 1.52–2.75 <0.0001
Ovarian 47.6 14.9 1.6 1.27–2.04 <0.0001
Gynaecological 86.0 28.0 1.6 1.34–1.89 <0.0001
Lung 37.5 15.2 1.2 0.91–1.55 0.16
Malignant melanoma 23.9 13.8 1.07 0.76–1.48 0.67
Lymphoma 26.9 16.6 0.95 0.68–1.29 0.76
Genitourinary 26.6 15.8 0.89 0.64–1.20 0.44
Thyroid 12.9 9.6 0.87 0.53–1.35 0.54
Gastrointestinal 119.1 15.9 0.82 0.70–0.95 0.007
Head and neck 11.6 9.1 0.64 0.38–1.01 0.06
Sarcoma 22.3 NAa

Abbreviations: CI=confidence interval; PY=person-years; SIR=standardized incidence ratio.

a

NA, not available by age for the general population of French women.