Table 4.
Associations between congenital malformation and testicular germ cell tumors stratified by median age at diagnosis among controls.*
< median age at diagnosis | ≥ median age at diagnosis | |||||||||
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Cases | Controls | OR† | 95% CI | Cases | Controls | OR† | 95% CI | p-het | ||
Cryptorchidism (age 13) | 80 | 147 | 2.76 | 2.09–3.65 | 33 | 34 | 4.96 | 3.06–8.04 | 0.04 | |
Hypospadias/Epispadias (age 6) | 11 | 17 | 3.23 | 1.51–6.91 | 3 | 12 | 1.25 | 0.35–4.43 | 0.21 | |
Inguinal hernia (age 24) | 65 | 217 | 1.51 | 1.14–2.01 | 53 | 217 | 1.23 | 0.91–1.66 | 0.33 | |
CNS (age 12) | 1 | 13 | 0.38 | 0.05–2.94 | 5 | 15 | 1.67 | 0.61–4.59 | 0.21 | |
Cleft lip (age 6) | 4 | 14 | 1.43 | 0.47–4.34 | 2 | 16 | 0.62 | 0.14–2.72 | 0.38 | |
Digestive tract (age 0.3) | 2 | 16 | 0.62 | 0.14–2.72 | 4 | 12 | 1.69 | 0.53–5.36 | 0.30 | |
Circulatory (age 11) | 4 | 23 | 0.87 | 0.30–2.51 | 9 | 21 | 2.17 | 0.99–4.78 | 0.17 | |
Musculo-skeletal (age 12) | 5 | 52 | 0.48 | 0.19–1.20 | 13 | 53 | 1.23 | 0.67–2.25 | 0.09 | |
Ear (age 14) | 10 | 41 | 1.22 | 0.61–2.45 | 8 | 37 | 1.08 | 0.50–2.32 | 0.82 | |
Eye (age 12) | 2 | 6 | 1.67 | 0.34–8.26 | 2 | 8 | 1.25 | 0.26–5.89 | 0.80 | |
Urinary system (age 11) | 4 | 23 | 0.87 | 0.30–2.51 | 7 | 22 | 1.59 | 0.68–3.72 | 0.38 | |
Other genital‡ (age 10) | 8 | 15 | 2.67 | 1.13–6.29 | 6 | 17 | 1.76 | 0.70–4.48 | 0.52 | |
Other (non-genital; age 20) | 11 | 33 | 1.68 | 0.84–3.33 | 3 | 31 | 0.48 | 0.15–1.58 | 0.08 | |
All malformations‡ (age 12) | 47 | 224 | 1.05 | 0.77–1.45 | 57 | 227 | 1.26 | 0.94–1.69 | 0.42 |
CNS = central nervous system; OR = odds ratio; 95% CI = 95% confidence interval, p-het = p-value for heterogeneity
OR calculated from conditional logistic regression analysis, cases and controls were matched on year of birth and county of birth
Categories exclude cryptorchidism, hypospadias/epispadias and inguinal hernia