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. 2017 Sep 8;7(9):e605. doi: 10.1038/bcj.2017.81

Table 2. Effect of prior malignancy on hazard of death from all causes among ALL patients by age group, California, 1988–2012.

Model Variable aHR 95% CI P-value
A de novo ALL REF    
  am-ALLa 1.19 (1.05, 1.34) 0.0062
         
B de novo ALL REF    
  s-ALLb 1.38 (1.16, 1.63) 0.0003
  Prior non-IR solid tumorsc 1.05 (0.89, 1.24) 0.5536
         
C s-ALLb (vs de novo ALL)      
   Age<40 years 4.80 (3.15, 7.30) <.0001
   Age⩾40 years 1.40 (1.16, 1.69) 0.0004
  Prior non-IR solid tumorsc (vs de novo ALL)      
   Age<40 years 1.34 (0.34, 5.37) 0.6781
   Age⩾40 years 1.54 (1.31, 1.81) <.0001

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; aHR, adjusted hazard ratio of death; ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukemia; am-ALL, antecedent malignancy ALL; IR, increased risk; s-ALL, secondary ALL.

All models accounting for sex, race/ethnicity, age at diagnosis, marital status, year of diagnosis, histology (B-cell, T-cell and not-otherwise-specified), neighborhood socioeconomic status, rural (vs urban) location.

a

am-ALL is defined as ALL after any prior malignancy.

b

s-ALL is defined as ALL occurring after IR malignancies (hematologic malignancies and salivary gland, bone and joint, breast, testis, brain, thyroid and other endocrine including thymus cancers).

c

Non-IR solid tumors were all malignancies not associated with an increased risk of developing ALL as a second malignancy.