Table 1 Top ten cancers stratified by sibling-groups
From: Characteristics of 1270 Chinese sibling pairs with cancer
No. | Brothers | Sisters | Brothers and sisters | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brothers | Sisters | Both | ||||||||
Disease | N (%) | Disease | N (%) | Disease | N (%) | Disease | N (%) | Disease | N (%) | |
1 | Lung cancer | 146 (26.5) | Breast cancer | 210 (35.4) | Lung cancer | 126 (28.2) | Breast cancer | 103 (23.1) | Lung cancer | 224 (25.1) |
2 | Stomach cancer | 92 (16.7) | Lung cancer | 109 (18.3) | Stomach cancer | 72 (16.1) | Lung cancer | 98 (22.0) | Stomach cancer | 112 (12.5) |
3 | Liver cancer | 85 (15.5) | Colorectal cancer | 55 (9.3) | Liver cancer | 58 (13.0) | Colorectal cancer | 55 (12.3) | Colorectal cancer | 107 (12.0) |
4 | Colorectal cancer | 66 (12.0) | Thyroid cancer | 31 (5.2) | Colorectal cancer | 52 (11.7) | Stomach cancer | 40 (9.0) | Breast cancer | 104 (11.7) |
5 | Esophageal cancer | 58 (10.5) | Liver cancer | 28 (4.7) | Esophageal cancer | 41 (9.2) | Liver cancer | 25 (5.6) | Liver cancer | 83 (9.3) |
6 | Pancreatic cancer | 19 (3.5) | Ovarian cancer | 28 (4.7) | Pancreatic cancer | 16 (3.6) | Endometrial carcinoma | 20 (4.5) | Esophageal cancer | 55 (6.1) |
7 | Kidney cancer | 12 (2.2) | Endometrial carcinoma | 27 (4.5) | Prostate cancer | 13 (2.9) | Pancreatic cancer | 16 (3.6) | Pancreatic cancer | 32 (3.6) |
8 | Malignant lymphoma | 12 (2.2) | Stomach cancer | 25 (4.2) | Bladder cancer | 12 (2.7) | Esophageal cancer | 14 (3.1) | Endometrial carcinoma | 20 (2.2) |
9 | Leukemia | 11 (2.0) | Pancreatic cancer | 18 (3.0) | Kidney cancer | 8 (1.8) | Cervical cancer | 14 (3.1) | Thyroid cancer | 18 (2.0) |
10 | Laryngeal cancer/Prostate cancera | 7 (1.3) | Cervical cancer | 13 (2.2) | Gallbladder cancer/Malignant lymphomaa | 7 (1.6) | Ovarian cancer | 13 (2.9) | Bladder cancer | 15 (1.7) |
Sum | 508 (92.4) | 544 (91.6) | 405 (90.8) | 398 (89.2) | 770 (86.3) | |||||