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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2017 Jun 24;220(7):1133–1140. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2017.06.006

Table 1b.

Dichloromethane exposures at 3km and childhood cancers

ICCC/ICD-O-3** Codes Ever Exposed* Never Exposed
Hematopoietic cancers 011–015, 021–025 559 (9.8%) 5162 (90.2%)
Leukemias 011–015 492 (9.6%) 4608 (90.4%)
   ALL 011 399 (9.7%) 3722 (90.3%)
   AML 012 72 (9.7%) 668 (90.3%)
  Lymphomas 021–025 67 (10.8%) 554 (89.2%)
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma 022–023 16 (9.5%) 152 (90.5%)
CNS tumors 031–037 218 (9.2%) 2162 (90.8%)
  Ependymoma 031 22 (7.7%) 264 (92.3%)
  Astrocytoma 032 83 (8.3%) 918 (91.7%)
Neuroblastoma 041 106 (7.7%) 1275 (92.3%)
Retinoblastoma 050 68 (9.2%) 675 (90.9%)
  Unilateral RB 050 46 (9.0%) 467 (91.0%)
  Bilateral RB 050 22 (9.9%) 201 (90.1%)
Wilms tumor 061 92 (8.7%) 965 (91.3%)
Hepatoblastoma 071 28 (8.2%) 314 (91.8%)
Soft Tissue sarcomas 091–095 67 (9.5%) 639 (90.5%)
Germ Cell tumors 101–105 61 (13.5%) 388 (86.5%)
  Yolk Sac tumors 101–105,**9071 22 (12.2%) 159 (87.9%)
  Teratomas 101–105,**9080 34 (16.4%) 171 (83.6%)
Controls 23,956 (8.9%) 246,717 (91.1%)
*

Children and pregnant women living within 3km of dichloromethane releases

**

ICD-O-3 Code