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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2013 Jun 12;133(10):2444–2453. doi: 10.1002/ijc.28266

Table 4.

Risk of adult cancer in relatives of 4,482 pediatric cases diagnosed in Utah from 1966 to 2009

Index
cases
Matched
controls
First-degree relatives, LFS cancer at ages 19–55
First-degree relatives, non-LFS cancer at ages 19–55
Relatives of cases
Relatives of controls
Relatives of cases
Relatives of controls
Diagnosed Undiagnosed Diagnosed Undiagnosed Diagnosed Undiagnosed Diagnosed Undiagnosed

Cancer of
pediatric case
N N OR
(95% CI)
p N OR
(95% CI)
p
    Any cancer, ages 0–4 1,552 7,760 26 2,858 63 16,053 2.2 (1.4–3.5) <10–3 52 2,832 212 15,904 1.3 (1.0–1.8) 0.10
    Any cancer, ages 0–18 4,482 22,410 75 8,778 244 50,702 1.7 (1.3–2.1) <10–3 166 8,687 711 50,235 1.3 (1.1–1.5) <0.01
ICCC-3 classification, ages 0–18
    Leukemias, myeloproliferative 1,150 5,750 22 2,040 56 12,607 2.2 (1.3–3.5) <10–3 35 2,027 155 12,508 1.2 (0.9–1.8) 0.28
    CNS and intracranial/spinal 870 4,350 13 1,805 37 9,796 1.8 (1.0–3.5) 0.06 29 1,789 139 9,694 1.1 (0.7–1.6) 0.72
    Lymphomas, reticuloendothelial 578 2,890 9 1,076 34 6,688 1.5 (0.7–3.1) 0.29 25 1,060 105 6,617 1.4 (0.9–2.1) 0.17
    Other epithelial, melanomas 480 2,400 11 1,002 34 5,522 1.7 (0.9–3.5) 0.12 20 993 66 5,490 1.6 (1.0–2.7) 0.06
    Soft tissue, other sarcomas 304 1,520 6 625 20 3,561 1.6 (0.6–3.9) 0.35 8 623 54 3,527 0.8 (0.4–1.6) 0.84
    Malignant bone tumors 258 1,290 8 534 24 3,107 1.6 (0.7–3.6) 0.25 16 526 60 3,071 1.3 (0.7–2.3) 0.38
    Neuroblastoma, nervous cell 254 1,270 4 432 19 2,700 1.4 (0.5–4.1) 0.59 12 424 25 2,694 3.1 (1.5–6.4) <0.01
    Germ cell tumors 262 1,310 1 493 16 2,890 0.4 (0.1–2.7) 0.31 8 486 47 2,859 1.0 (0.5–2.1) 0.94
    Renal tumors 203 1,015 1 487 17 2,410 0.2 (0.0–1.8) 0.17 10 478 36 2,391 1.2 (0.6–2.4) 0.64
    Retinoblastomas 87 435 1 173 7 998 0.7 (0.1–5.7) 0.71 2 172 10 995 1.0 (0.2–4.5) 0.97
    Hepatic tumors 60 300 0 100 1 560 Undetermined 3 97 8 553 1.8 (0.5–7.1) 0.39

Cases compared to controls matched 5:1 on sex, birth year and birthplace (in Utah or outside of Utah).

Abbreviations: OR: odds ratio from conditional logistic regression; ICCC-3: International Classification of Childhood Cancer, Third edition13; CNS: central nervous system.