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. 2021 Oct 5;11:19769. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99225-9

Table 2.

Comparison of the incidence of cancer between the control and actinic keratosis groups.

Control groups (N = 307,190) Actinic keratosis (N = 61,438) P-value
Event % Event %
Number of subjects with any cancers 15,755 5.13 4420 7.19 < 0.01
Skin cancer 89 0.03 61 0.1 < 0.01
Oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer 242 0.08 96 0.16 < 0.01
Lymphoma 337 0.11 108 0.18 < 0.01
Leukemia 252 0.08 68 0.11 0.03
Prostate cancer 1466 0.48 398 0.65 < 0.01
Renal cancer 351 0.11 91 0.15 0.03
Multiple myeloma 200 0.07 26 0.04 0.04
Liver cancer 1742 0.57 423 0.69 < 0.01
Thyroid cancer 1070 0.35 259 0.42 < 0.01
Laryngeal cancer 118 0.04 27 0.04 0.53
Esophageal cancer 215 0.07 49 0.08 0.41
Gastric cancer 2590 0.84 585 0.95 < 0.01
Colorectal cancer 3279 1.07 674 1.1 0.52
Pancreatic cancer 1374 0.45 320 0.52 0.01
Biliary cancer 858 0.28 161 0.26 0.46
Lung cancer 2578 0.84 549 0.89 0.18
Bladder cancer 636 0.21 149 0.24 0.08
Cancer of central nervous system 274 0.09 71 0.12 0.05
Breast cancer* 880 0.29 190 0.31 0.34
Uterine cervical cancer* 251 0.08 51 0.08 0.92
Uterine corpus cancer* 155 0.05 37 0.06 0.33
Ovarian cancer* 283 0.09 61 0.1 0.60
Testicular cancer 29 0.01 5 0.01 0.76

*Female malignancies were analyzed in 187,925 female controls and 37,585 female actinic keratosis patients.

Male malignancies were analyzed in 119,265 male controls and 23,853 male actinic keratosis patients.