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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2016 Jul 5;122(19):3075–3086. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30164

Table 3.

Risk of Developing a Second Primary Malignancy Estimated From a Cox Proportional Hazards Model

Females Males
HR (95% CI) P HR (95% CI) P
Site
    Prostate - Referent
    Bladder 1.66 (1.60–1.72) <.0001 1.88 (1.84–1.92) <.0001
    Breast Referent 1.69 (1.53–1.87) <.0001
    Colorectal 1.17 (1.14–1.20) <.0001 1.42 (1.39–1.45) <.0001
    Endometrial 1.31 (1.27–1.34) <.0001 -
    Lung 1.22 (1.17–1.26) <.0001 1.44 (1.39–1.49) <.0001
    Melanoma 1.37 (1.31–1.43) <.0001 1.69 (1.63–1.75) <.0001
    Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 2.88 (2.69–3.07) <.0001 2.70 (2.58–2.83) <.0001
    Renal cell cancer 1.53 (1.46–1.60) <.0001 1.86 (1.80–1.92) <.0001
    Thyroid 1.29 (1.23–1.34) <.0001 1.73 (1.63–1.84) <.0001
Age at diagnosis of first malignancy, y
    18–35 Referent Referent
    36–50 2.34 (2.18–2.52) <.0001 3.28 (2.89–3.71) <.0001
    51–65 4.67 (4.35–5.02) <.0001 8.80 (7.79–9.94) <.0001
    66–80 7.13 (6.63–7.65) <.0001 15.10 (13.37–17.04) <.0001
    ≥80 6.20 (5.75–6.69) <.0001 15.24 (13.47–17.23) <.0001
Race
    White Referent Referent
    Black 1.04 (1.01–1.07) .007 1.13 (1.11–1.15) <.0001
    Other 0.83 (0.80–0.86) <.0001 0.79 (0.76–0.81) <.0001
    Unknown 0.05 (0.04–0.08) <.0001 0.04 (0.04–0.05) <.0001
Marital status
    Married/domestic partner Referent Referent
    Divorced/widowed/separated 1.09 (1.07–1.11) <.0001 1.05 (1.03–1.07) <.0001
    Single 1.06 (1.03–1.09) <.0001 0.97 (0.94–0.99) .0032
    Unknown 1.04 (1.00–1.08) .0509 1.04 (1.01–1.06) .0029
Grade
    Well differentiated Referent Referent
    Moderately differentiated 1.05 (1.03–1.08) <.0001 1.01 (0.99–1.04) .3413
    Poorly differentiated 1.12 (1.09–1.15) <.0001 1.06 (1.04–1.09) <.0001
    Undifferentiated 1.20 (1.13–1.27) <.0001 1.11 (1.06–1.16) <.0001
    Unknown/not applicable 1.01 (0.98–1.04) .4398 0.93 (0.90–0.96) <.0001
Stage
    Localized and in situ Referent Referent
    Distant 0.96 (0.92–1.01) .1312 0.84 (0.80–0.88) <.0001
    Regional 1.01 (0.99–1.03) .1687 0.97 (0.95–0.99) .0075
    Unknown 0.01 (0.00–0.02) .9196 1.05 (1.03–1.08) <.0001
    Unstaged 0.52 (0.49–0.55) <.0001 0.69 (0.66–0.72) <.0001
% Bachelor’s degree, quartile
    1st 1.14 (1.10–1.18) <.0001 1.12 (1.09–1.15) <.0001
    2nd 1.08 (1.05–1.12) <.0001 1.07 (1.04–1.09) <.0001
    3rd 1.04 (1.01–1.07) .0029 1.01 (0.99–1.03) .1811
    4th Referent Referent
Median income, quartile
    1st 0.90 (0.87–0.93) <.0001 0.96 (0.93–0.98) .0012
    2nd 0.91 (0.88–0.94) <.0001 0.93 (0.91–0.95) <.0001
    3rd 0.97 (0.95–0.99) .0265 0.99 (0.98–1.01) .5978
    4th Referent Referent

Abbreviations: 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio.