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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2009 Apr 1;124(7):1622–1625. doi: 10.1002/ijc.24051

Table 1.

Multiple primary - standardized incidence ratios (MP-SIRs) of cancers in a high-risk Taiwan population.

Cancer Site ICD-FT-O Study enrollment-2005 with multiple primaries
Males (7417 per-yrs) Females (7734 per-yrs) Total (15151 per-yrs)

O** SIR 95% CI O** SIR 95% CI O** E** SIR 95% CI
All 52 1.2 0.91–1.6 58 1.4 1.11.9 110 83 1.3 1.11.6
All except NPC Exclude 147 36 0.87 0.61–1.2 49 1.2 0.91–1.6 85 81 1.0 0.83–1.3
Cancers associated with infectious agents

Oral 140–149 (except 142, 147) 4 0.97 0.26–2.5 1 2.0 0.03–11 5 4.7 1.1 0.35–2.5
Salivary glands 142 1 8.3 0.11–46 0 0 0–45 1 0.2 5.0 0.07–28
Nasopharyngeal 147 16 13 7.622 9 21 9.640 25 1.6 15 1023
Esophagus 150 1 0.70 0.01–3.9 1 6.3 0.08–35 2 1.6 1.3 0.14–4.6
Gastric 151 1 0.35 0–2.0 2 1.1 0.12–4.0 3 4.7 0.64 0.13–1.9
Liver & intrahepatic bile ducts 155 9 1.1 0.51–2.1 4 1.0 0.28–2.6 13 12 1.1 0.58–1.9
Cervix uteri 180 -- -- -- 12 1.7 0.89–3.0 12 7 1.7 0.89–3.0
Vulva/vagina 184 -- -- -- 1 4.0 0.05–22 1 0.25 4.0 0.05–22
Hodgkin’s lymphoma 201 0 0 0–77 1 36 0.46–198 1 0.08 13 0.17–74
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 200, 202 0 0 0–3.9 1 1.2 0.03–6.8 1 1.8 0.57 0.01–3.2
Infectious + NPC 32 1.71 1.22.4 32 2.1 1.53.0 64 34 1.9 1.52.4
Infectious − NPC 16 0.91 0.52–1.5 23 1.6 1.02.4 39 32 1.2 0.87–1.7

Cancers not associated with infectious agents *

Colorectal 153–154 3 0.54 0.11–1.6 2 0.39 0.04–1.4 5 11 0.47 0.15–1.1
Respiratory system 160–165 3 0.44 0.09–1.3 4 1.1 0.29–2.8 7 11 0.66 0.27–1.4
Trachea, bronchus and lung 162 3 0.50 0.10–1.5 4 1.2 0.31–3.0 7 9.4 0.74 0.30–1.5
Breast 174–175 0 0 0–97 8 1.2 0.52–2.4 8 6.7 1.2 0.51–2.4
Urinary bladder 188–189 5 1.9 0.60–4.4 4 2.1 0.56–5.3 9 4.6 2.0 0.89–3.7
*

Restricted to individual cancers or grouped cancers with > 5 observed or expected events

**

O=observed and E=expected