Table 3

Proportional cancer incidence ratios (PCIR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of children with Turkish names versus children with non-Turkish names in the German Childhood Cancer Registry 1980–2005, female children

Diagnosis group
Turkish cases (n)
Non-Turkish cases (n)
PCIR (95% CI)

Lymphoid leukaemia
211
4430
1.02 (0.91–1.14)
Acute non-lymphocytic leukemia
49
870
1.21 (0.92–1.58)
Hodgkin's disease
41
708
1.24 (0.92–1.67)
Non-Hodgkin/Burkitt Lymphoma
44
736
1.28 (0.96–1.70)
CNS tumors
138
2944
1.00 (0.86–1.17)
Neuroblastoma and ganglioneuroblastoma
60
1327
0.97 (0.76–1.23)
Retinoblastoma
14
388
0.77 (0.46–1.30)
Nephroblastoma
42
1119
0.80 (0.60–1.08)
Malignant bone tumours
38
837
0.97 (0.71–1.32)
Soft-tissue sarcomas
36
1032
0.75 (0.54–1.03)
Germ-cell tumors
25
626
0.85 (0.58–1.26)
Other
34
646
1.13 (0.81–1.57)

Total
732
15663
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Spallek et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:152   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-152