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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2018 Aug 20;124(20):4090–4097. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31560

Table 2.

Comparison of all-cause mortality by race/ethnicity among childhood cancer cases, ages 0 to 19 years, diagnosed 2000-2011, SEER 18 registries

Black versus White Hispanic versus White
Cancer Type Mortality HRa 95% CI P Mortality HRa 95% CI P
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 1.43 1.15, 1.77 <0.01 1.63 1.44, 1.85 <0.001
Acute Myeloid Leukemia 1.68 1.35, 2.08 <0.001 1.19 0.99, 1.42 0.06
Neuroblastoma 1.38 1.07, 1.78 0.02 1.31 1.03, 1.66 0.03
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 1.53 1.15, 2.05 <0.01 1.65 1.28, 2.13 <0.001
Hodgkin Lymphoma 1.66 1.09, 2.53 0.02 1.11 0.76, 1.64 0.59
Astrocytoma 1.95 1.55, 2.46 <0.001 1.34 1.10, 1.64 <0.01
Non-Astrocytoma CNS Tumors 1.53 1.26, 1.86 <0.001 1.07 0.92, 1.25 0.36
Non-Rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas 1.40 1.08, 1.82 0.01 1.22 0.98, 1.53 0.08
Rhabdomyosarcoma 1.44 1.10, 1.88 0.01 1.11 0.88, 1.41 0.37
Wilms Tumor 0.96 0.57, 1.62 0.88 1.60 1.06, 2.39 0.02
Osteosarcoma 0.88 0.67, 1.16 0.37 0.99 0.79, 1.23 0.91
Germ Cell Tumors 0.98 0.57, 1.69 0.94 1.63 1.23, 2.18 <0.01

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio

a

Adjusted for age at diagnosis, sex, and stage at diagnosis (stage not applicable for leukemias)