Table 1

Relative risks, 95% confidence intervals and associated p-values for the most common cancers observed in the study and for those cancers commonly found in FA homozygotes.

Cancer
Observed
Expected
O/E
95% C.I.
p-value

Breast
7
8.97
0.78
0.31–1.59
0.795
Lung
9
9.3
0.97
0.44–1.84
0.583
Colorectal
6
7.1
0.85
0.51–3.04
0.264
Prostate
5
3
1.66
0.54–3.89
0.185
Stomach
3
2.98
1.01
0.21–2.94
0.573
Endometrial
3
1.41
2.13
0.44–6.2
0.168
Leukaemia
2
1.29
1.55
0.19–5.6
0.370
Head and Neck
3
1.59
1.89
0.12–15.9
0.214






ALL CANCERS
55
56.95
0.97
0.71–1.23
0.62

O/E = observed versus expected, C.I. = confidence interval

Tischkowitz et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:257   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-257