Table 5.
Relative Rates of Mortality From All Causes, Late Effects, and SMNs Among 5-Year Survivors
| Characteristic | No. of Patients | Cause of Death |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes |
Effects of Treatment |
SMNs |
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| No. of Deaths | RR | 95% CI | No. of Deaths | RR | 95% CI | No. of Deaths | RR | 95% CI | ||
| Total | 4,972 | 159 | 62 | 27 | ||||||
| Sex | ||||||||||
| Male | 2,372 | 83 | 1.00 | 30 | 1.00 | 18 | 1.00 | |||
| Female | 2,600 | 76 | 0.79 | 0.58 to 1.08 | 32 | 0.93 | 0.57 to 1.54 | 9 | 0.43 | 0.19 to 0.96 |
| Age at diagnosis, years | ||||||||||
| 0-4 | 3,874 | 98 | 1.00 | 38 | 1.00 | 14 | 1.00 | |||
| 5-9 | 971 | 46 | 1.97 | 1.39 to 2.80 | 20 | 2.23 | 1.30 to 3.84 | 11 | 3.46 | 1.57 to 7.64 |
| 10-15 | 127 | 15 | 5.03 | 2.91 to 8.67 | 4 | 3.38 | 1.20 to 9.50 | 2 | 4.57 | 1.03 to 20.17 |
| Year of diagnosis | ||||||||||
| 1969-1974 | 436 | 21 | 1.00 | 18 | 1.00 | 9 | 1.00 | |||
| 1975-1979 | 700 | 37 | 1.08 | 0.65 to 1.81 | 18 | 1.07 | 0.52 to 2.21 | 8 | 0.79 | 0.29 to 2.19 |
| 1980-1984 | 1,203 | 42 | 1.05 | 0.62 to 1.77 | 15 | 0.83 | 0.37 to 1.86 | 6 | 0.59 | 0.19 to 1.84 |
| 1985-1989 | 1,296 | 28 | 0.93 | 0.52 to 1.68 | 7 | 0.57 | 0.21 to 1.56 | 2 | 0.36 | 0.07 to 1.90 |
| 1990-1995 | 1,337 | 21 | 1.13 | 0.59 to 2.15 | 4 | 0.65 | 0.19 to 2.22 | 2 | 0.76 | 0.13 to 4.49 |
Abbreviations: SMN, second malignant neoplasm; RR, rate ratio.