Table 1 Cancer risk in patients with tuberculosis (TB) stratified by patient characteristics
From: Cancer risk in tuberculosis patients in a high endemic area
Characteristics | Malignant tumor group (N = 32,539) | Benign tumor group (N = 12,916) | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | % | No | % | ||
Sex | < 0.0001 | ||||
Male | 12,420 | 38.17 | 791 | 6.12 | |
Female | 20,119 | 61.83 | 12,125 | 93.88 | |
Age, years | < 0.0001 | ||||
Median | 55.0 | – | 41.4 | – | |
Range | 2–99 | – | 5–91 | – | |
Ethnicity | 0.2155 | ||||
Han | 21,845 | 67.13 | 8734 | 67.62 | |
Non-Han | 10,694 | 32.87 | 4182 | 32.38 | |
Tuberculosis | < 0.0001 | ||||
TB | 1776 | 5.46 | 175 | 1.35 | |
Non-TB | 30,763 | 94.54 | 12,741 | 98.65 | |