Table 4

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, male children

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

Lymphoid leukaemia
293
5747
0.97 (0.88–1.07)
Acute non-lymphocytic leukemia
63
957
1.25 (0.99–1.59)
Hodgkin's disease
78
1070
1.39 (1.12–1.72)
Non-Hodgkin/Burkitt Lymphoma
108
1817
1.13 (0.95–1.35)
CNS tumors
180
3737
0.92 (0.80–1.05)
Neuroblastoma and ganglioneuroblastoma
84
1548
1.03 (0.84–1.27)
Retinoblastoma
14
416
0.64 (0.38–1.08)
Nephroblastoma
50
1048
0.91 (0.69–1.19)
Malignant bone tumours
40
912
0.83 (0.62–1.13)
Soft-tissue sarcomas
66
1258
1.00 (0.79–1.26)
Germ-cell tumors
23
516
0.85 (0.57–1.27)
Other
43
796
1.03 (0.77–1.38)

Total
1042
19822
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Spallek et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:152   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-152