Cancer Risks for Relatives of Children with Cancer

Table 1

The distribution of childhood cancers enrolled in the Victorian Paediatric Cancer Family Study.

Cancer type	N	(%)
Leukemia	171	(45)
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia	145
Acute myeloid leukemia	26
Lymphoma	31	(8)
Hodgkins’ lymphoma	15
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma	16
Central nervous system	80	(21)
Glioma	43
Medulloblastoma	14
Germ cell	4
Other	19
Sarcoma	35	(9)
Bone—osteosarcoma	8
Bone—Ewing’s sarcoma	11
Soft tissue sarcoma	16
Neuroblastoma	17	(4)
Kidney	30	(8)
Liver	4	(1)
Retinoblastoma	2	(1)
Germ Cell—Non-CNS	9	(2)
Total	379	(100)