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. 2011 Aug 16;105(7):1076–1081. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2011.313

Table 3. Site-specific risk of second cancer following CLL by age at first diagnosis and follow-up time.

  Age at CLL diagnosis a
Year(s) after CLL diagnosis
  40–54
55–64
>64
<1
1-9
>9
Second cancer site (ICD-10) O SIR O SIR O SIR O SIR O SIR O SIR
Lip (C00) 11 56.5 9 8.83 25 4.95 2 3.83 31 6.61 12 16.5
Colorectal (C18–C20; C218) 12 2.32 60 2.58 175 1.82 27 2.72 182 2.01 38 1.98
Lung (C33–C34) 19 2.70 87 2.78 169 1.92 25 2.51 191 2.08 59 2.43
Melanoma (C44; M872–M879) 32 22.0 70 11.0 169 6.20 17 6.11 206 8.04 49 7.51
Female Breast (C50) 9 4.41 21 3.04 56 1.58 8 2.22 64 1.96 14 2.38
Uterine corpus (C54) 0 7 5.39 2 3.25 1 1.67 21 3.86 4 9.77
Prostate (C61) 13 4.54 70 3.02 184 1.64 38 3.47 171 1.67 59 2.38
Kidney (C64–C66, C68) 7 7.11 15 3.48 31 2.06 8 5.01 36 2.43 9 4.29
Bladder (C67) 1 1.38 15 3.17 55 2.30 6 2.49 47 2.19 18 3.61
All malignant neoplasms (C00–C80) 140 3.84 467 2.89 1183 1.89 163 2.50 1270 2.11 360 2.25

Abbreviations: CLL=chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; ICD=International Classification of Diseases; O=observed number of cases; SIR= standardised incidence ratio.

a

Age group <40 years was excluded from table because of small numbers.

Values in bold=95% confidence interval did not include 1.00; cancer types must have been significant (95% confidence interval did not include 1.00) and have at least 20 cases to be included.