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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 Mar 16;18(9):1438–1445. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2012.03.003

Table 3.

Ratio of observed to expected cases and absolute excess risk of new malignancy occurring two-years after transplantation

Primary
disease
New malignancy Obs
*
Exp* ObsExp (95% CI) p-value AER*
CGD Melanoma of skin 1 0.0027 370.33 (9.37, 2063) 0.005 1.40
WAS Kidney 1 0.0656 15.23 (0.39, 84.85) 0.127 1.31
HLH Brain stem glioma 1 0.0212 46.98 (1.19, 262) 0.042 1.37
HLH Hodgkin lymphoma 1 0.0727 13.75 (0.35, 76.63) 0.140 1.30
WAS AML 2 0.0533 37.55 (4.55, 135.66) 0.003 2.72
CHS MDS 1 0.0516 19.38 (0.49, 108) 0.101 1.33
LCH Mucoepidermoid cancer 1 0.2043 4.89 (0.12, 27.27) 0.369 1.11

Abbreviations: 95% CI = 95% confidence interval; CGD=chronic granulomatous diseases; WAS=Wiskott Aldrich syndrome; HLH=hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; SCID=T (−) B(+) severe combined immunodeficiency; CHS=Chediak Higashi syndrome; LCH=Langerhan cell histiocytosis;

AML=acute myeloid leukemia; MDS=myelodysplastic syndrome

*

Obs denotes observed cases and

*

Exp denotes expected cases

*

AER denotes absolute excess risk; number of observed cases minus number of expected cases per 10,000 person-years at risk