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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Aug;18(8):2239–2247. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0287

Table 1.

Odds ratios of pregnancy outcomes among female survivors of childhood cancer

natural pregnancy outcome4
live birth (n=2,998) miscarriage (n=607) still birth (n=23)5 termination (n=485)6,7 low birth weight (n=262)8 premature (n=368)

n (%) OR (95%CI) n (%) OR (95%CI) n (%) OR (95%CI) n (%) OR (95%CI) n (%) OR (95%CI) n (%) OR (95%CI)

Type of childhood cancer 1
leukaemia
(reference)
549 (69.4%) 1 132 (16.7%) 1 5 (0.6%) 1 105 (13.3%) 1 33 (6.2%) 1 62 (12.9%) 1
Hodgkin’s
lymphoma
251 (72.5%) 1.2 (0.8,1.8) 49 (14.2%) 0.8 (0.5,1.3) 3 (0.9%) 1.4 (0.3,5.7) 43 (12.4%) 1.1 (0.7,1.8) 13 (5.5%) 1.0 (0.4,2.3) 26 (11.6%) 0.9 (0.5,1.6)
NHL 156 (74.6%) 1.4 (0.9,2.4) 28 (13.4%) 0.7 (0.4,1.2) 0 - 25 (12.0%) 1.2 (0.7,2.1) 17 (11.1%) 2.1 (1.0,4.8) 18 (13.4%) 1.1 (0.6,2.0)
CNS tumour 577 (77.0%) 1.5 (1.0,2.1) 90 (12.0%) 0.7 (0.5,0.9) 5 (0.7%) 1.0 (0.3,3.4) 77 (10.3%) 1.1 (0.8,1.7) 27 (4.9%) 0.8 (0.4,1.5) 63 (13.4%) 1.0 (0.6,1.6)
neuroblastoma 139 (73.5%) 1.4 (0.8,2.3) 29 (15.3%) 0.8 (0.5,1.2) 0 - 21 (11.1%) 1.1 (0.6,2.1) 20 (15.4%) 2.2 (1.1,4.6) 21 (16.5%) 1.5 (0.8,2.7)
NH-retinoblastoma 213 (77.7%) 1.5 (0.9,2.3) 33 (12.0%) 0.7 (0.4,1.1) 2 (0.7%) 1.1 (0.2,6.0) 26 (9.5%) 1.2 (0.7,2.1) 15 (7.3%) 1.2 (0.5,2.8) 23 (12.1%) 1.0 (0.5,1.7)
H-retinoblastoma 83 (73.5%) 1.5 (0.8,2.7) 13 (11.5%) 0.6 (0.3,1.2) 1 (0.9%) 1.4 (0.2,11.5) 16 (14.2%) 2.1 (1.1,3.7) 4 (5.1%) 0.8 (0.2,3.0) 8 (10.4%) 0.8 (0.3,1.7)
Wilms’ tumour 248 (65.6%) 1.0 (0.7,1.5) 66 (17.5%) 1.0 (0.6,1.5) 4 (1.1%) 1.8 (0.4,7.8) 60 (15.9%) 1.6 (1.0,2.4) 56 (23.1%) 3.9 (2.0,7.6) 66 (30.1%) 2.7 (1.7,4.3)
bone tumour 180 (71.9%) 1.2 (0.8,1.8) 37 (14.9%) 0.9 (0.6,1.4) 0 - 31 (12.5% ) 1.1 (0.7,1.8) 18 (10.4%) 2.3 (1.0,5.3) 18 (11.5%) 0.8 (0.4,1.6)
soft-tissue sarcoma 241 (71.9%) 1.0 (0.7,1.5) 58 (17.3% ) 1.0 (0.7,1.6) 0 - 36 (10.8%) 1.2 (0.8,2.0) 25 (10.7%) 2.9 (1.4,5.9) 25 (12.3%) 1.0 (0.6,1.7)
other 361 (75.0%) 1.2 (0.9,1.8) 72 (15.0%) 0.8 (0.6,1.2) 3 (0.6%) 0.9 (0.2,3.6) 45 (9.4%) 0.9 (0.6,1.4) 34 (9.7%) 2.2 (1.2,4.3) 38 (12.5%) 1.0 (0.6,1.5)
p-heterogeneity 0.492 0.45 - 0.416 <0.001 <0.001
Treated with chemotherapy 2
No (reference) 1515 (75.4%) 1 276 (13.7%) 1 14 (0.7%) 1 205 (10.2%) 1 119 (8.2%) 1 171 (13.6%) 1
Yes 1035 (69.3%) 0.8 (0.6,1.2) 247 (16.5%) 1.2 (0.9,1.7) 7 (0.5%) * 204 (13.7%) 0.8 (0.6,1.3) 107 (10.7%) 1.3 (0.8,2.2) 142 (15.3%) 1.2 (0.8,1.7)
Unknown 448 (73.4%) - 84 (13.8%) - 2 (0.3%) - 76 (12.5%) - 36 (5.9%) - 55 (9.0%) -
p-heterogeneity 0.272 0.271 - 0.388 0.26 0.476
Treated with radiotherapy 3
No (reference) 1048 (73.7%) 1 209 (14.7%) 1 7 (0.5%) 1 158 (11.1%) 1 77 (7.6%) 1 95 (10.5%) 1
Other
(non-brain/abdominal)
619 (75.5%) 1.0 (0.8,1.4) 107 (13.0%) 1.0 (0.7,1.3) 4 (0.5%) 1.0 (0.3,3.4) 90 (11.0%) 1.1 (0.8,1.5) 43 (7.4%) 0.7 (0.4,1.2) 71 (13.1%) 1.2 (0.8,1.8)
Brain 662 (72.7%) 1.1 (0.8,1.4) 130 (14.3%) 0.9 (0.7,1.2) 7 (0.8%) 2.0 (0.6,6.9) 112 (12.3%) 0.8 (0.6,1.2) 39 (6.2%) 0.5 (0.3,0.8) 82 (14.7%) 1.3 (0.8,1.9)
Abdominal 351 (69.0%) 0.7 (0.5,1.0) 96 (18.6%) 1.4 (1.0,1.9) 3 (0.6%) 1.3 (0.2,7.2) 59 (11.6%) 1.1 (0.7,1.7) 75 (22.3%) 1.9 (1.1,3.2) 90 (28.7%) 3.2 (2.1,4.7)
Unknown 318 (72.9%) - 65 (14.4%) - 2 (0.4%) - 66 (14.6%) - 28 (6.2%) - 30 (6.7%) -
p-heterogeneity 0.236 0.176 - 0.454 <0.001 <0.001
Abdominal – Non- Wilms 159 (71.6%) 0.7 (0.5,1.1) 40 (18.0%) 1.5 (0.9,2.3) 0 * 23 (10.4%) 0.9 (0.5,1.6) 30 (20.1%) 1.6 (0.9,3.0) 36 (25.0%) 2.7 (1.6,4.5)
Abdominal – Wilms 192 (66.9)% 0.7 (0.5,1.1) 56 (19.5%) 1.4 (0.9,2.1) 3 (1.1%) * 36 (12.5%) 1.4 (0.8,2.4) 45 (24.1%) 2.3 (1.2,4.6) 54 (31.8%) 3.5 (2.1,5.7)
p-heterogeneity 0.185 0.151 .- 0.457 0.028 <0.001
1

Adjusted for maternal age and birth order

2

Adjusted for treatment with radiotherapy, maternal age, and birth order

3

Adjusted for treatment with chemotherapy , maternal age, and birth order

4

Outcomes evaluated relative to all natural pregnancy outcomes

5

Insufficient events to reliably test for heterogeneity

6

Evaluated relative to all natural pregnancy outcomes plus terminations

7

adjusted for decade of treatment

8

adjusted for premature delivery

NHL: Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; CNS: Central Nervous System; NH: non-heritable; H:heritable; RT: radiotherapy; CT: chemotherapy

*

Convergence not achieved