Table 4.
Types of cancers diagnosed in patients enrolled at BCCOE during first year
| Cancers only (n = 759) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Cancer Type Adults (18 years or older) | 657 | 100.0 | Cancer Type Children (<18 years) | 102 | 100.0 |
| Breast cancer | 189 | 28.8 | Nephroblastoma | 28 | 27.5 |
| Cervical Cancer | 141 | 21.5 | ALLa | 25 | 24.5 |
| Non-Kaposi skin cancer | 46 | 7.0 | Hodgkin lymphoma | 10 | 9.8 |
| Head and neck cancer | 38 | 5.8 | Rhabdomyosarcoma | 7 | 6.9 |
| Colorectal cancer | 26 | 4.0 | Burkitt Lymphoma | 5 | 4.9 |
| Other Gynecological Malignancies | 26 | 4.0 | Osteosarcoma | 5 | 4.9 |
| CMLa | 22 | 3.4 | Head and neck cancer | 4 | 3.9 |
| Other Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 21 | 3.2 | Other Leukemias | 4 | 3.9 |
| Gastric cancer | 21 | 3.2 | Other Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 3 | 2.9 |
| Kaposi sarcoma | 16 | 2.4 | Other Bone Cancers | 3 | 2.9 |
| Prostate cancer | 16 | 2.4 | Kaposi’s sarcoma | 2 | 2.0 |
| Other GIa | 14 | 2.1 | Other Gynecological Malignancies | 2 | 2.0 |
| Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 13 | 2.0 | Breast cancer | 1 | 1.0 |
| Soft-tissue Sarcomas | 12 | 1.8 | CMLa | 1 | 1.0 |
| Other GUa | 11 | 1.7 | Metastatic (unknown primary) | 1 | 1.0 |
| Other solid cancers | 9 | 1.4 | Skin cancer | 1 | 1.0 |
| Other Leukemias | 8 | 1.2 | |||
| ALLa | 7 | 1.1 | |||
| Metastatic (unknown primary) | 5 | 0.8 | |||
| Multiple myeloma | 5 | 0.8 | |||
| Osteosarcoma | 3 | 0.5 | |||
| Unknown type | 2 | 0.3 | |||
| Rhabdomyosarcoma | 2 | 0.3 | |||
| Other Bone Cancers | 2 | 0.3 | |||
| Large B-cell lymphoma | 1 | 0.2 | |||
| Nephroblastoma | 1 | 0.2 | |||
a CML chronic myeloid leukemia, Other GI other gastrointestinal cancers, Other GU other genitourinary cancers, ALL acute lymphoblastic leukemia