Table 1.
Characteristics of the patients with cancer and healthy children
| Variables | Patients with cancer | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child On-treatment (n = 157) | Child off-treatment < 12 m (n = 35) | Child off-treatment > 12 m (n = 74) | Total sample (n = 266) | Healthy Children (n = 284) | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Age | ||||||||||
| 2-4 | 47 | 29.9 | 9 | 25.7 | 8 | 10.8 | 64 | 24.1 | 68 | 23.9 |
| 5-7 | 42 | 26.8 | 10 | 28.6 | 25 | 33.8 | 77 | 28.9 | 81 | 28.5 |
| 8-12 | 38 | 24.2 | 8 | 22.9 | 23 | 31.1 | 69 | 25.9 | 74 | 26.1 |
| 13-18 | 30 | 19.1 | 8 | 22.9 | 18 | 24.3 | 56 | 21.1 | 61 | 21.5 |
| Gender† | ||||||||||
| Male | 92 | 58.6 | 20 | 57.1 | 42 | 56.8 | 154 | 57.9 | 159 | 56.0 |
| Female | 65 | 41.4 | 15 | 42.9 | 32 | 43.2 | 112 | 42.1 | 125 | 44.0 |
| Diagnosis | ||||||||||
| Leukemia or lymphoma | 91 | 58.0 | 22 | 62.9 | 50 | 67.6 | 163 | 61.3 | - | |
| Solid tumor | 66 | 42.0 | 13 | 37.1 | 24 | 32.4 | 103 | 38.7 | - | |
| Education | ||||||||||
| Non-attendance | 50 | 31.8 | 9 | 25.7 | 12 | 16.2 | 71 | 26.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Current school attendance | 107 | 68.2 | 26 | 74.3 | 62 | 83.8 | 195 | 73.3 | 284 | 100.0 |
| Parents | ||||||||||
| Mother | 131 | 83.4 | 27 | 77.1 | 62 | 83.8 | 220 | 82.7 | 237 | 83.5 |
| Father | 26 | 16.6 | 8 | 22.9 | 12 | 16.2 | 46 | 17.3 | 47 | 16.5 |
n: number of individuals.