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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2009 Feb 15;124(4):952–957. doi: 10.1002/ijc.23971

Table 2.

Risk of cancer in family members of men with testicular germ-cell tumors compared with controls, overall and stratified by sex

All first- valign="top">
and second-degree valign="top">
relatives
Maternal relatives
Paternal relatives
Cases
Controls
Cases
Controls
Cases
Controls
(592,888
person-years)
(742,986
person-years)
(312,495
person-years)
(254,449
person-years)
(227,881
person-years)
(288,622
person-years)
n
n
RR (95% CI)*
n
n
RR (95% CI)*
n
n
RR (95% CI)*
All malignant neoplasms 1,574 1,735 1.14 (1.05−1.24) 831 879 1.16 (1.04−1.30) 657 776 1.08 (0.95−1.21)
    Male 753 849 1.08 (0.97−1.21) 329 349 1.11 (0.94−1.32) 389 473 1.02 (0.88−1.19)
    Female 821 886 1.19 (1.07−1.32) 502 530 1.20 (1.05−1.37) 268 303 1.15 (0.97−1.37)
Head and neck 46 68 0.84 (0.56−1.26) 26 34 0.93 (0.53−1.64) 18 28 0.79 (0.43−1.44)
    Male 30 48 0.76 (0.47−1.21) 16 19 0.99 (0.49−2.01) 13 25 0.63 (0.32−1.24)
    Female 16 20 1.02 (0.50−2.09) 10 15 0.83 (0.35−2.00) 5 3 2.13 (0.51−8.95)
Lung 186 282 0.81 (0.66−1.00) 106 136 0.93 (0.71−1.23) 78 143 0.69 (0.51−0.94)
    Male 122 189 0.78 (0.62−0.99) 63 85 0.87 (0.62−1.22) 58 102 0.71 (0.51−0.98)
    Female 64 93 0.88 (0.63−1.25) 43 51 1.07 (0.69−1.65) 20 41 0.65 (0.37−1.15)
Breast 209 244 1.09 (0.89−1.33) 127 151 1.05 (0.82−1.36) 77 85 1.16 (0.84−1.61)
Digestive tract 223 213 1.29 (1.06−1.58) 127 101 1.52 (1.15−2.00) 94 108 1.09 (0.81−1.46)
    Male 111 119 1.13 (0.87−1.47) 54 46 1.36 (0.92−2.03) 55 70 0.96 (0.67−1.40)
    Female 112 94 1.50 (1.13−2.00) 73 55 1.65 (1.15−2.37) 39 38 1.32 (0.84−2.08)
Urinary system 42 48 1.09 (0.71−1.67) 26 27 1.16 (0.66−2.04) 15 19 1.04 (0.53−2.05)
    Male 31 29 1.32 (0.80−2.20) 18 13 1.66 (0.80−3.42) 12 14 1.13 (0.52−2.43)
    Female 11 19 0.72 (0.34−1.53) 8 14 0.68 (0.28−1.64) 3 5 0.79 (0.18−3.38)
Hematopoetic 86 86 1.25 (0.90−1.72) 47 39 1.50 (0.96−2.34) 31 43 0.89 (0.55−1.44)
    Male 44 53 1.02 (0.67−1.56) 23 18 1.52 (0.79−2.90) 16 33 0.60 (0.33−1.09)
    Female 42 33 1.61 (1.02−2.56) 24 21 1.47 (0.81−2.66) 15 10 1.83 (0.79−4.22)
Male genital organs 175 144 1.52 (1.19−1.94) 70 50 1.70 (1.15−2.51) 94 91 1.30 (0.94−1.80)
    Testis 28 12 3.03 (1.47−6.21) 12 4 3.85 (1.22−12.12) 5 5 1.34 (0.38−4.78)
    Prostate 146 130 1.39 (1.07−1.81) 58 46 1.52 (1.00−2.32) 88 84 1.32 (0.94−1.84)
Female genital organs 132 132 1.27 (0.98−1.65) 85 82 1.29 (0.95−1.74) 22 26 1.07 (0.59−1.94)
Melanoma skin 29 40 0.94 (0.57−1.55) 16 25 0.80 (0.42−1.52) 8 11 0.95 (0.37−2.45)
    Male 13 22 0.75 (0.37−1.52) 4 12 0.41 (0.13−1.25) 6 8 0.97 (0.31−2.98)
    Female 16 18 1.34 (1.01−1.77) 12 13 1.19 (0.53−2.63) 2 3 0.91 (0.16−5.27)
Non-melanoma skin 184 169 1.40 (1.10−1.77) 92 85 1.35 (0.96−1.91) 79 73 1.41 (0.99−1.99)
    Male 109 102 1.17 (0.59−2.31) 38 35 1.31 (0.79−2.18) 62 62 1.29 (0.90−1.84)
    Female 75 67 1.49 (1.04−2.11) 54 50 1.39 (0.92−2.10) 17 11 2.20 (0.98−4.93)
*

Adjusted for reference age and race/ethnicity of cases/controls, sex (for non-sex-stratified analyses), and side of family (for analyses of all first- and second-degree relatives)