Question

NEUROBLASTOMA & HORMONE USE Use the following scenario to answer next series of questions, A study was designed to determine the relationship between use of medications during pregnancy and risk of neuroblastoma in the infant. Cases were identified from the New York State Cancer Registry as being diagnosed between 1976 and 1987. Controls were identified from live births obtained from the birth certificate registry for the same time period. Mothers of all selected babies were interviewed by trained interviewers by telephone to determine prior use of specific medications, including prior use of sex hormones and medical history of the mother. The following table presents some of the information from this study, Cases Controls Prior Use of Prior Use of Sex Hormones YES 14 10 NO 169 362

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Answer 60:

The correction answer is 3.0

Odds ratio = Odds of exposure (cases)/Odds of exposure (controls)
Odds ratio = (14/169)/(10/362)
Odds ratio = 3.0

Answer 61:

Mothers who took the hormones during pregnancy were 3 times more likely to have infant with neuroblastoma than were mothers who did not take hormones