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Number of offspring in the Family-Cancer Database in 1958-2002
| Total no. of offspring | Offspring with cancer | Offspring linked to parent | Offspring with cancer not linked to parent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| All | 7,400,436 | 224,225 | 3.0 | 7,240,222 | 97.8 | 26,254 | 0.4 |
| Living offspring | 7,100,978 | 144,602 | 2.0 | 7,010,092 | 98.6 | 8,936 | 0.1 |
| Deceased offspring | 289,458 | 79,623 | 27.5 | 230,130 | 79.5 | 17,318 | 6.0 |
