Table 3.

Distribution of children with parents with cancer having experienced parental cancer death by January 2008, by parental cancer site and stage of cancer at diagnosis

Variable	Cancer in mother		Cancer in father
	Minor childrena (%)c	YA childrenb (%)	Minor children (%)	YA children (%)
Cancer site
Skin	5.4	9.2	11.7	18.4
Colorectal	42.5	43.3	45.2	51.1
Brain	12.6	23.6	23.7	39.3
Endocrine	2.6	5.0	7.7	13.8
Leukemia	12.5	33.7	20.9	46.2
Non-Hodgkin disease	10.7	21.9	12.9	30.2
Hodgkin disease	4.5	18.2	5.6	20.4
Renal/bladder	12.7	19.7	15.9	20.9
Lung	58.5	73.4	64.2	80.3
Head and neck	10.2	16.3	22.2	27.0
Soft tissue	18.5	27.9	14.4	32.1
Bone	11.5	22.7	18.4	41.6
Breast	16.0	19.9	N/A	N/A
Cervical/uterine	8.2	15.2	N/A	N/A
Ovarian	9.6	21.7	N/A	N/A
Testicular	N/A	N/A	2.0	6.1
Prostate	N/A	N/A	9.2	10.5
Other or unknownd	38.5	56.0	37.4	50.5
Stage of cancer at diagnosis
Local	5.6	10.3	8.3	16.6
Regional	17.7	23.5	21.1	35.3
Metastatic	61.7	72.0	56.3	74.8
Unknowne	9.5	21.8	14.8	27.6

Notes:

^aMinor children are those aged between 0 and 18 y;

^bYA children are those aged between 19 and 25 y;

^cpercent-wise distribution of minor and YA children with parents with cancer (17/427 (4%) minor children and 75/796 (9%) YA children lost both parents after cancer and therefore the combined number of mothers and fathers is not shown);

^dnot otherwise specified;

^eincludes parental cancers with unknown stage and leukemias and around 50% of the lymphomas for which no stage was recorded.

Abbreviations: N/A, not applicable; y, years; YA, young adult.