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Table 6 Difference in age of diagnosis to cancer types, stratified by sibling-pair groups

From: Characteristics of 1270 Chinese sibling pairs with cancer

Age difference

Brother N (%)

Sister N (%)

Brother-and-sister N (%)

All N (%)

Same cancer

Different cancer

Same cancer

Different cancer

Same cancer

Different cancer

Same cancer

Different cancer

0

8 (7.8)

22 (8.3)

13 (9.5)

17 (7.4)

8 (7.9)

23 (5.3)

29 (8.5)

62 (6.8)

1–5

38 (36.9)

75 (28.4)

54 (39.4)

66 (28.6)

35 (34.7)

126 (29.0)

127 (37.2)

267 (28.7)

6–10

22 (21.4)

59 (22.3)

28 (20.4)

53 (22.9)

28 (27.7)

114 (26.3)

78 (22.9)

226 (24.3)

11–15

19 (18.4)

47 (17.8)

14 (10.2)

36 (15.6)

13 (12.9)

70 (16.1)

46 (13.5)

153 (16.4)

16–20

9 (8.7)

21 (8.0)

16 (11.7)

25 (10.8)

5 (4.9)

48 (11.1)

30 (8.8)

94 (10.1)

21–25

3 (2.9)

21 (8.0)

8 (5.8)

19 (8.2)

7 (6.9)

25 (5.8)

18 (5.3)

65 (7.0)

26–30

1 (1.0)

11 (4.2)

2 (1.5)

7 (3.0)

3 (3.0)

18 (4.1)

6 (1.7)

36 (3.9)

>  30

3 (2.9)

8 (3.0)

2 (1.5)

8 (3.5)

2 (2.0)

10 (2.3)

7 (2.1)

26 (2.8)

Total

103 (100)

264 (100)

137 (100)

231 (100)

101 (100)

434 (100)

341 (100)

929 (100)