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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Sep;53(3):432–437. doi: 10.1002/pbc.22082

TABLE II.

Pituitary and thyroid dosimetry and corresponding risk of hypothyroidism, stratified by radiotherapy exposure and adjusted for diagnosis year and age, race/ethnicity, and sex.

Treatment group Pituitary dose, Gy median (IQR) Thyroid dose, Gy median (IQR) Hypothyroid – all individuals Hypothyroid – on supplementation

n HR (95% CI) n HR (95% CI)
Chemotherapy only 0 (-) 0 (-) 10 1 ref 4 1 ref
Cranial <20 Gy, no spinal radiotherapy 16.8 (8.8–17.0) 0.7 (0.5–0.8) 12 1.5 (0.7, 3.6) 2 0.6 (0.1, 3.2)
Cranial ≥20 Gy, no spinal radiotherapy 22.5 (21.6–24.0) 0.8 (0.6–1.1) 16 1.7 (0.7, 4.2) 10 2.1 (0.6, 7.9)
Cranial <20 Gy, any spinal radiotherapy 17.8 (12.5–18.2) 12.0 (10.1–14.4) 1 2.0 (0.2, 16.0) 1 4.5 (0.5, 43.3)
Cranial ≥20 Gy, any spinal radiotherapy 24.3 (23.9–27.0) 16.6 (11.0–19.8) 17 8.3 (3.3, 20.5) 9 11.1 (2.9, 41.7)
Siblings, males* 5 0.2 (0.04, 1.02) 2 0.2 (0.01, 2.5)
Siblings, females* 45 0.7 (0.3, 1.7) 23 1.2 (0.2, 6.3)

IQR, interquartile range; HR, hazard ratio;

*

adjusted only for race/ethnicity and compared with same-sex survivors who received chemotherapy only.