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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2020 Nov 9;148(9):2079–2089. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33361

Table 5:

Risk of secondary leukemia according to the age weighted average radiation dose to active bone marrow (ABM) and to chemotherapy (CT)

Treatment characteristics Cases/controls Reference: No CT, no RT Reference: CT, no RT

Odds ratio$ (95% CI) Odds ratio$ (95% CI)
All leukemias 147/522

No CT and 0 Gy* 2/69 1.0 (Reference) 0.0 (0.01-0.3)
 No CT and >0-12 11/66 7.7 (1.7-36.2) 0.4 (0.16-1.0)
 No CT and >12 2/16 3.7 (0.28-49.9) 0.2 (0.02-1.7)
CT and 0 Gy 49/161 18.8 (3.9-92) 1.0 (Reference)
 CT and >0-12 61/171 22.3 (4.6-108) 1.2 (0.75-1.9)
 CT and >12 22/39 33.0 (6.3-173.9) 1.8 (0.85-3.6)
§P-value for interaction 0.01 0.01

AML 101/356

No CT and 0 Gy* 2/41 1.0 (Reference) 0.1 (0.02-0.6)
 No CT and >0-12 7/45 4.9 (0.95-25.6) 0.6 (0.20-1.6)
 No CT and >12 1/12 - -
CT and 0 Gy 30/107 8.6 (1.7-44) 1.0 (Reference)
 CT and >0-12 43/120 11.8 (2.3-59.8) 1.4 (0.77-2.4)
 CT and >12 18/31 18.8 (3.3-105.7) 2.2 (0.94-5.0)
§P-value for interaction 0.03 0.03

Abbreviations: 95% CI = 95% confidence interval; CT = chemotherapy; RT = radiotherapy; AML= Acute myeloid leukemia.

$

Conditional logistic regression matched on gender, age at childhood cancer diagnosis and follow-up and adjusted for year of diagnosis.

*

The classes of whole active bone marrow radiation dose (Gy) were grouped as 0, >0-12 (highest quartile) and >12 Gy for the analysis in table 3.

§

P-value for interaction between chemotherapy and active bone marrow radiation dose was calculated using a likelihood ratio test under the multiplicative model.