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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Cancer. 2008 Dec 4;45(4):561–571. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.10.011

Table 4. Endocrine vs chemoendocrine: second non-breast primaries as sites of first failure (Trials III, VII, and the first 212 patients in Trial 12).

Endocrine Chemoendocrine TOTAL
Total patients 529 (100.0%) 1202 (100.0%) 1731 (100.0%)
Total patients with second non-breast primary cancer 46 (8.7%) 93 (8.0%) 139 (8.0%)
14-year cumulative incidence of second non-breast cancer* 6.5% 7.2% 7.0%
 (95% confidence interval) (4.3%, 8.6%) (5.6%, 8.7%) (5.7%,8.2%)
Types of second non-breast cancer
 Head and Neck 2 (0.4%) 1 (<0.1%) 3 (0.2%)
 Thyroid 1 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%) 4 (0.2%)
 Lung (non small cell) . 3 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%)
 Lung (type not specified) . 5 (0.4%) 5 (0.3%)
 Lung carcinoid 1 (0.2%) . 1 (<0.1%)
 Esophageal . 3 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%)
 Gastric 6 (1.1%) 5 (0.4%) 11 (0.6%)
 Small bowel . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Colon 5 (0.9%) 7 (0.6%) 12 (0.7%)
 Rectal 4 (0.8%) 3 (0.2%) 7 (0.4%)
 Pancreatic 1 (0.2%) 5 (0.4%) 6 (0.3%)
 Hepatic . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Biliary 1 (0.2%) 1 (<0.1%) 2 (0.1%)
 Colorectal (type not specified) . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Renal 1 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%) 4 (0.2%)
 Urothelial 2 (0.4%) 7 (0.6%) 9 (0.5%)
 Ovarian 3 (0.6%) 6 (0.5%) 9 (0.5%)
 Endometrial 5 (0.9%) 16 (1.3%) 21 (1.2%)
 Mixed Muellerian tumor 1 (0.2%) 2 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%)
 Uterine sarcoma . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Uterine (type not specified) . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Cervical 2 (0.4%) 2 (0.2%) 4 (0.2%)
 Vulvar . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Central nervous system (type not specified) 1 (0.2%) . 1 (<0.1%)
 Melanoma 4 (0.8%) 4 (0.3%) 8 (0.5%)
 Ocular melanoma . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Acute lymphocytic leukaemia . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
 Acute myeloid leukaemia 1 (0.2%) 1 (<0.1%) 2 (0.1%)
 Chronic lymphocyticleukaemia . 2 (0.2%) 2 (0.1%)
 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 3 (0.6%) 4 (0.3%) 7 (0.4%)
 Lymphoma (type not specified) 1 (0.2%) 1 (<0.1%) 2 (0.1%)
 Multiple myeloma 1 (0.2%) . 1 (<0.1%)
 Primary peritoneal . 1 (<0.1%) 1 (<0.1%)
*

Competing risk analysis [13]