Table 1. TB incidence rates in cancer patients stratified by cancer type.
| Type of cancer | Cancer patients, N (%) | Cancer patients with TB | IR of TB in cancer patients/100,000 person-year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BCTB | CDTB | All TB | BCTB | CDTB | All TB | |||
| Malignant brain tumor (including eye, spinal cord) | 474 (1.36) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 436 | – | 436 | |
| Head and neck cancera | 994 (2.86) | 18 | 4 | 22 | 921 | 202 | 1,126 | |
| Lung cancer | 3,454 (9.93) | 78 | 38 | 116 | 1,886 | 907 | 2,804 | |
| Esophageal cancer | 446 (1.28) | 16 | 3 | 19 | 2,798 | 520 | 3,323 | |
| Stomach cancer | 6,120 (17.59) | 75 | 18 | 93 | 575 | 137 | 713 | |
| Colorectal cancer | 4,145 (11.92) | 37 | 17 | 54 | 407 | 186 | 594 | |
| Hepatobiliary/pancreatic cancer | ||||||||
| Hepatocellular carcinoma | 3,496 (10.05) | 25 | 11 | 36 | 468 | 205 | 674 | |
| Biliary tract cancer | 1,073 (3.08) | 6 | 1 | 7 | 397 | 66 | 463 | |
| Pancreatic cancer | 907 (2.61) | 13 | 1 | 14 | 1,724 | 131 | 1,857 | |
| Hematologic cancer | ||||||||
| Lymphoma | 756 (2.17) | 14 | 1 | 15 | 849 | 60 | 909 | |
| Leukemia | 576 (1.66) | 14 | 1 | 15 | 1,515 | 107 | 1,623 | |
| Multiple myeloma | 208 (0.60) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 2,649 | – | 2,649 | |
| Thyroid cancer | 4,824 (13.87) | 19 | 6 | 25 | 145 | 46 | 191 | |
| Breast cancer | 3,216 (9.25) | 12 | 8 | 20 | 144 | 96 | 240 | |
| Uterine and ovary cancer | ||||||||
| Cervical cancer | 1,031 (2.96) | 10 | 1 | 11 | 415 | 41 | 457 | |
| Uterine cancer | 302 (0.87) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 278 | – | 278 | |
| Ovary cancer | 527 (1.52) | 6 | 1 | 7 | 533 | 88 | 622 | |
| Urological cancer | ||||||||
| Kidney cancer | 603 (1.73) | 8 | 1 | 9 | 516 | 64 | 580 | |
| Ureter and bladder cancer | 838 (2.41) | 4 | 4 | 8 | 215 | 215 | 430 | |
| Prostate cancer | 793 (2.28) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 551 | - | 551 | |
| Total | 34,783 (100.0) | 380 | 116 | 496 | 535 | 163 | 699 | |
a, malignancy above chest except brain, eye, and thyroid. BCTB, bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis; CDTB, clinically diagnosed tuberculosis; IR, incidence rate; IRR, incidence rate ratio; TB, tuberculosis.