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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Jun 16;65(23):2511–2522. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.04.013

Table 1.

Demographic and treatment characteristics of adult survivors of childhood cancer

Eligible (N=3,029) Non-participants (N=1,209) Participants (N=1,820) Anthracycline Alone (N=1,050) Chest-directed RT Alone (N=306) Anthracycline + Chest-directed RT (N=464)
N %* N %* N %* N %* N %* N %*
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 2517 83.8 965 81.2 1552 85.5 905 86.4 260 85.0 387 83.8
Non-Hispanic Black 415 13.8 193 16.2 222 12.2 116 11.1 40 13.1 66 14.3
Non-Hispanic Other 41 1.4 18 1.5 23 1.3 12 1.2 6 2.0 5 1.1
Hispanic 31 1.0 13 1.1 18 1.0 14 1.3 0 0.0 4 0.9
Sex
Male 1684 55.6 738 61.0 946 52.0 548 52.2 164 53.6 234 50.4
Female 1345 44.4 471 39.0 874 48.0 502 47.8 142 46.4 230 49.6
Age at Diagnosis (years)
0-4 1023 33.8 404 33.4 619 34.0 416 39.6 69 22.6 134 28.9
5-9 718 23.7 296 24.5 422 23.2 246 23.4 79 25.8 97 20.9
10-14 731 24.1 286 23.7 445 24.5 242 23.1 95 31.1 108 23.3
15-19 530 17.5 210 17.4 320 17.6 138 13.1 61 19.9 121 26.1
>19 27 0.9 13 1.1 14 0.8 8 0.8 2 0.7 4 0.9
Time Since Diagnosis (years)
10-20 1027 34.1 366 30.3 661 36.3 392 37.5 80 26.3 189 41.3
21-30 1228 40.7 498 41.2 730 40.1 468 44.8 87 28.6 175 38.2
31-40 643 21.3 280 23.2 363 19.9 179 17.1 101 33.2 83 18.1
41-50 118 3.9 65 5.4 53 2.9 6 0.6 36 11.8 11 2.4
Current Age (years)
18-20 139 4.6 51 4.2 88 4.8 69 6.6 3 1.0 16 3.5
21-30 1193 39.6 430 35.6 763 41.9 506 48.4 88 29.0 169 36.9
31-40 1112 36.9 462 38.2 650 35.7 356 34.1 84 27.6 210 45.9
41-50 484 16.1 217 18.0 267 14.7 107 10.2 103 33.9 57 12.5
>50 88 2.9 49 4.1 39 2.1 7 0.7 26 8.6 6 1.3
Primary Cancer Diagnosis
Leukemia 1246 41.1 479 39.6 767 42.1 601 57.2 54 17.7 112 24.1
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia 1053 34.8 384 31.8 669 36.8 550 52.4 31 10.1 88 19.0
Acute myeloid leukemia 146 4.8 72 6 74 4.1 51 4.9 1 0.3 22 4.7
Other leukemia 47 1.6 23 1.9 24 1.3 0 0.0 22 7.2 2 0.4
Lymphoma 799 26.4 332 27.5 467 25.7 136 13.0 121 39.5 210 45.3
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 307 10.1 151 12.5 156 8.6 120 11.4 11 3.6 25 5.4
Hodgkin Lymphoma 492 16.2 181 15 311 17.1 16 1.5 110 36.0 185 39.9
CNS tumor 140 4.6 62 5.1 78 4.3 2 0.2 76 24.8 0 0.0
Bone tumor 261 8.6 88 7.3 173 9.5 150 14.3 0 0.0 23 5.0
Ewing sarcoma 119 3.9 38 3.1 81 4.5 60 5.7 0 0.0 21 4.5
Osteosarcoma 142 4.7 50 4.1 92 5.1 90 8.6 0 0.0 2 0.4
Other tumors 23 0.8 13 1.1 10 0.5 0 0.0 10 3.3 0 0.0
Germ cell tumor 20 0.7 11 0.9 9 0.5 0 0.0 9 2.9 0 0.0
Melanoma 3 0.1 2 0.2 1 0.1 0 0.0 1 0.3 0 0.0
Soft Tissue Sarcoma 143 4.7 59 4.9 84 4.6 60 5.7 5 1.6 19 4.1
Rhabdomyosarcoma 97 3.2 43 3.6 54 3 42 4.0 3 1.0 9 1.9
Non-Rhabdo Sarcoma 46 1.5 16 1.3 30 1.6 18 1.7 2 0.7 10 2.2
Other Malignancies 417 13.8 176 14.6 241 13.2 101 9.6 40 13.1 100 21.6
Neuroblastoma 142 4.7 57 4.7 85 4.7 60 5.7 13 4.3 12 2.6
Retinoblastoma 16 0.5 11 0.9 5 0.3 5 0.5 0 0.0 0 0.0
Wilms tumor 230 7.6 97 8 133 7.3 26 2.5 20 6.5 87 18.8
Carcinoma 6 0.2 3 0.2 3 0.2 1 0.1 2 0.7 0 0.0
Other 23 0.8 8 0.7 15 0.8 9 0.9 5 1.6 1 0.2
Anthracycline Cumulative Dose (mg/m2)
0 510 16.9 204 17.1 306 16.9 0 0.0 306 100.0 0 0.0
1-100 784 26.0 296 24.6 488 26.9 419 40.0 0 0.0 69 15.0
101-200 882 29.2 364 30.3 518 28.6 292 27.9 0 0.0 226 49.0
201-300 336 11.1 141 11.7 195 10.8 105 10.0 0 0.0 90 19.5
301-400 332 11.0 107 8.9 225 12.4 163 15.6 0 0.0 62 13.5
401-500 100 3.3 41 3.4 59 3.3 51 4.9 0 0.0 8 1.7
501-600 23 0.8 5 0.4 18 1.0 13 1.2 0 0.0 5 1.1
>600 48 1.6 43 3.6 5 0.3 4 0.4 0 0.0 1 0.2
Chest-directed RT
0 Gy 1765 60.5 715 62.1 1050 59.4 1050 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
1-19.9Gy 653 22.4 250 21.7 403 22.8 0 0.0 131 45.0 272 63.7
20-29.9Gy 330 11.3 121 10.5 209 11.8 0 0.0 72 24.7 137 32.1
≥30Gy 172 5.9 66 5.7 106 6.0 0 0.0 88 30.2 18 4.2
Metabolic Syndrome
Yes -- -- -- -- 509 28.6 280 27.2 99 33.5 130 28.8
No -- -- -- -- 1269 71.4 750 72.8 197 66.6 322 71.2
Components of Metabolic Syndrome
Abdominal Obesity
Yes -- -- -- -- 538 30.4 355 34.5 69 23.7 114 25.4
No -- -- -- -- 1232 69.6 675 65.5 222 76.3 335 74.6
Elevated Triglycerides
Yes -- -- -- -- 470 26.0 234 22.4 98 32.2 138 30.0
No -- -- -- -- 1338 74.0 810 77.6 206 67.8 322 70.0
Low HDL Cholesterol
Yes -- -- -- -- 665 36.8 379 36.3 113 37.2 173 37.6
No -- -- -- -- 1143 63.2 665 63.7 191 62.8 287 62.4
Hypertension
Yes -- -- -- -- 816 45.2 436 41.8 160 53.2 220 47.8
No -- -- -- -- 989 54.8 608 58.2 141 46.8 240 52.2
Fasting Glucose ≥100 mg/dl
Yes -- -- -- -- 577 31.9 295 28.2 125 41.1 157 34.1
No -- -- -- -- 1233 68.1 750 71.8 179 58.9 304 65.9
Previously Diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy -- -- -- -- 47 2.6 19 1.8 10 3.3 18 3.9
Previously Diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy and on Medications at the Time of Evaluation -- -- -- -- 23 1.3 7 0.7 6 2.0 10 2.2
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Percentages provided for total number of participants for whom data were available for a given characteristic.