Research Article
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) |
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