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Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2008 Jul 15;113(2):434–441. doi: 10.1002/cncr.23564

TABLE 3.

Multivariate Risk Factors Predicting Cancer Screening Practices in 1-Year Retinoblastoma Survivors

Female Male


Breast self-examinations* Clinical breast examinations Mammogram Pap test§ TSE
Age at interview, y OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
  18–24 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
  25–29 1.75 (0.76–4.04) 0.72 (0.30–1.72) 0.89 (0.30–2.67) 1.20 (0.49–2.91)
  30–34 1.49 (0.64–3.44) 0.85 (0.36–2.01) 2.96 (0.80–10.89) 0.66 (0.26–1.67)
  35–39 1.44 (0.66–3.12) 0.77 (0.35–1.66) 3.10 (1.07–8.96) 1.40 (0.60–3.31)
  ≥40 2.54 (1.16–5.57) 1.50 (0.66–3.37) 1.00 2.97 (1.04–8.49) 0.60 (0.29–1.49)
  ≥50 NA NA 0.91 (0.24–3.36) NA NA
Education
  <High school graduate 0.71 (0.23–2.24) 0.82 (0.27–2.52) 0.05 (0.004–0.70) 0.45 (0.11–1.81) 0.87 (0.33–2.31)
  High school /some college 0.91 (0.57–1.45) 0.68 (0.41–1.12) 0.83 (0.3–2.31) 0.68 (0.32–1.43) 0.51 (0.29–0.91)
  College graduate 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
Race
  White 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
  NonWhite 1.75 (0.74–3.39) 0.61 (0.27–1.39) 0.78 (0.1–6.0) 1.06 (0.32–3.49) 0.76 (0.27–2.10)
Radiotherapy for Rb
  No 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
  Yes 1.57 (0.81–3.02) 0.95 (0.47–1.89) 0.69 (0.16–3.01) 0.41 (0.14–1.13) 1.10 (0.45–2.69)
Hereditary Rb status
  Nonhereditary 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
  Hereditary 0.84 (0.43–1.61) 0.83 (0.42–1.66) 0.47 (0.11–2.04) 1.41 (0.51–3.86) 1.95 (0.79–4.82)
Hospitalized within past 5 y
  No 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
  Yes 0.95 (0.58–1.56) 0.81 (0.49–1.36) 1.95 (0.65–5.38) 1.16 (0.56–2.39) 0.49 (0.25–0.99)
Ever taken birth control pills
  No 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) NA
  Yes 0.98 (0.59–1.63) 2.80 (1.60–4.89) 7.71 (2.77–21.44) NA
Ever taken hormone replacement therapy
  No 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) NA
  Yes 0.86 (0.38–1.94) 0.99 (0.41–2.41) 6.60 (1.06–40.98) 1.19 (0.31–4.54) NA
Ever had a second cancer
  No 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent) 1.00 (referent)
  Yes 0.38(1.36–8.38) 2.11 (0.73–6.15) 2.03 (0.40–10.29) 0.87 (0.25–3.02) 3.46 (1.32–9.06)

Pap indicates Papanicolaou; TSE, testicular self-examination; OR, odds ratio; 95% confidence interval; NA, not applicable; RB, retinoblastoma.

*

Breast self-examination performed regulary (once a month).

Clinical breast examination performed within last year.

For females aged ≥40 years, report of having a mammogram within past 2 years.

§

Papnicolaou testing within past 3 years.

Testicular self-examination performed regularly (once a month).