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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Surviv. 2019 Jul 24;13(5):730–738. doi: 10.1007/s11764-019-00791-9

Table 3.

Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) for HPV vaccine initiation in childhood and adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors by sex

Female n = 428 Male n = 451
HR 95% CI p value HR 95% CI p value
Age category at eligibility (years)
 11–17 4.71 2.05, 10.84 0.0003 9.18 2.56, 32.86 0.0007
 18–26 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Age at cancer diagnosis (years)
 ≤10 3.10 1.12, 8.60 0.0300 3.99 1.02, 15.63 0.0468
 11–14 1.80 0.67, 4.86 0.24 2.27 0.56, 9.11 0.25
 ≥15 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Time from cancer diagnosis to eligibility to receive HPV vaccination (years) 0.95 0.90, 1.00 0.07 0.92 0.86, 0.99 0.03
Relapse
 Yes 1.25 0.67, 2.33 0.49 0.71 0.25, 2.03 0.52
Cancer diagnosis
 Leukemia/lymphoma 0.84 0.57, 1.24 0.38 0.90 0.53, 1.53 0.70
 Other cancera 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Race/ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic/White 0.82 0.53, 1.27 0.38 0.83 0.47, 1.47 0.53
 Otherb 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Receipt of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT)c
 Yes 0.70 0.30, 1.64 0.41 0.59 0.14, 2.54 0.48
a

Solid tumor, thyroid cancer, melanoma, other cancer

b

Black, Asian, Hispanic, other/unknown

c

Prior to eligibility to receive HPV vaccination