Table 3.
Odds Ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for childhood cancers in offspring of mothers working in industries with exposure to wood, paper and textile from birth to diagnosis
| Wood |
Paper |
Textile |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | OR (95% CI) | n | OR (95% CI) | n | OR (95% CI) | |
| Leukemia | 49/825 | 1.44 (1.08–1.94) | 10/188 | 1.30 (0.68–2.46) | 55/1,320 | 0.98 (0.74–1.29) |
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 35/627 | 1.35 (0.95–1.91) | 7/151 | 1.13 (0.53–2.43) | 41/1,010 | 0.95 (0.69–1.30) |
| Acute myeloid leukemia | 11/128 | 2.14 (1.13–4.03) | 1/24 | 0.96 (0.13–7.10) | 11/227 | 1.13 (0.60–2.11) |
| Central nervous system cancer | 17/563 | 0.73 (0.45–1.19) | 11/120 | 2.28 (1.22–4.26) | 31/826 | 0.91 (0.63–1.31) |
| Astrocytoma | 10/318 | 0.78 (0.41–1.47) | 5/73 | 1.71 (0.68–4.27) | 14/457 | 0.74 (0.43–1.27) |
| Medulloblastoma | * | - | * | - | 8/203 | 0.95 (0.46–1.96) |
| Ependymoma | * | - | * | - | * | - |
| Prenatal cancersa | 40/1,008 | 0.95 (0.69–1.32) | 12/239 | 1.24 (0.69–2.23) | 65/1,639 | 0.95 (0.73–1.22) |
| Selected cancers combinedb | 67/1.640 | 0.99 (0.77–1.27) | 23/368 | 1.56 (1.02–2.38) | 102/2,572 | 0.95 (0.77–1.16) |
*
n<5
a
Hepatoblastoma, medulloblastoma, Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma), neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma and acute lymphoid leukemia
b
Acute lymphoid leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, astrocytoma, medulloblastoma, ependymoma, hepatoblastoma, Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma), neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma