Table 4.
Odds Ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for childhood cancers in offspring of fathers working in industries with exposure to wood, paper and textile one year before birth to birth
| Wood | Paper | Textile | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | OR (95% CI) | n | OR (95% CI) | n | OR (95% CI) | |
| Leukemia | 119/2,586 | 1.14 (0.94–1.38) | 17/350 | 1.22 (0.75–1.99) | 13/439 | 0.74 (0.42–1.29) |
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 95/1,956 | 1.20 (0.97–1.49) | 14/277 | 1.28 (0.74–2.19) | 11/351 | 0.78 (0.43–1.43) |
| Acute myeloid Leukemia | 20/420 | 1.16 (0.73–1.86) | * | - | * | - |
| Central nervous system cancer | 71/1,469 | 1.20 (0.94–1.54) | 9/196 | 1.11 (0.57–2.18) | 10/232 | 1.09 (0.57–2.06) |
| Astrocytoma | 45/796 | 1.43 (1.05–1.96) | 6/108 | 1.37 (0.60–3.13) | * | - |
| Medulloblastoma | 12/349 | 0.83 (0.46–1.51) | * | - | * | - |
| Ependymoma | 7/208 | 0.81 (0.38–1.76) | * | - | * | - |
| Prenatal cancersa | 171/3,421 | 1.23 (1.05–1.45) | 24/473 | 1.26 (0.83–1.90) | 22/607 | 0.90 (0.59–1.38) |
| Selected cancers combinedb | 254/5,171 | 1.22 (1.07–1.39) | 33/695 | 1.17 (0.83–1.67) | 30/855 | 0.87 (0.61–1.26) |
*
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