Table 4.
Specific Causes of Death As Determined by the NWTS
| NWTS-Coded Cause of Death | No. of Deaths |
|
|---|---|---|
| First 5 Years | 5-Year Survivors | |
| Original disease | 771 | 64 |
| Late effects | ||
| Subsequent malignant neoplasms | 11 | 27 |
| Bone and articular cartilage | 0 | 4 |
| Brain and other parts of nervous system | 3 | 5 |
| Breast | 0 | 1 |
| Connective and other soft tissue | 0 | 1 |
| Digestive organs and peritoneum | 0 | 10 |
| Genitourinary organs | 0 | 1 |
| Lymphatic and hematopoietic | 8 | 5 |
| Cardiac | 6 | 14 |
| Cardiomyopathy | 3 | 8 |
| CHF | 3 | 6 |
| ESRD | 5 | 13 |
| Pulmonary | 0 | 3 |
| Pulmonary fibrosis | 0 | 2 |
| Other pulmonary | 0 | 1 |
| Other late effects | 0 | 5 |
| Non–treatment-related cause | ||
| External | 7 | 16 |
| Motor vehicle accident | 2 | 10 |
| Homicide | 1 | 4 |
| Suicide | 0 | 1 |
| Other accident | 4 | 1 |
| Medical | 18 | 11 |
| HIV | 0 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 1 | 0 |
| Other bacterial/viral infection | 3 | 2 |
| Heart disease | 5 | 3 |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 1 | 1 |
| Other medical condition | 8 | 4 |
| Unknown | 1 | 6 |
| Total* | 819 | 159 |
Abbreviations: NWTS, National Wilms Tumor Study; CHF, congestive heart failure; ESRD, end-stage renal disease.
*
Totals do not reflect the sum of all data in the column. Some deaths are counted once by their primary type and once by their subtype.