Table 3

Xeroderma pigmentosum patient deaths, 1971–2009

XP number	Comp group	Phenotype	Age at death (years)	Cause of death	Reference
XP20BE	G	XP/CS^*	6	Neurological degeneration	9 34 37
XP422BE	UNK	XP	11	Metastatic melanoma	This study
XP286BE	D	XP	16	Neurological degeneration	This study
XP15BE	C	XP	16	Glioblastoma	5 6
XP120BE	A	XP	24	Neurological degeneration	This study
XP13BE	VAR	XP	25	Struck by lightning	6 20
XP17BE	D	XP	26	Neurological degeneration	20
XP4BE	VAR	XP	27	Metastatic melanoma	6 20 54
XP5BE	D	XP	28	Neurological degeneration	6 20
XP423BE	UNK	XP	28	Invasive SCC	This study
XP10BE	C	XP	28	Invasive SCC	6 20
XP6BE	D	XP	29	Invasive SCC/neurological degeneration^†	6 20 22
XP424BE	C	XP	29	Metastatic melanoma	This study
XP23BE	C	XP	31	Metastatic melanoma/astrocytoma cord^‡	5 24 26 29 33
XPTTD384BE	D	XP/TTD^*	32	Metastatic melanoma	This study
XP27BE	C	XP	32	Unknown	55
XP8BE	C	XP	32	Metastatic melanoma	6
XP26BE	C	XP	33	Invasive SCC	This study
XP11BE	B	XP/CS^*	33	Arteriosclerosis	6 36
XP24BE	C	XP	35	Glioblastoma	26 33 56
XPLABE	D	XP	36	Drug overdose	57
XPBHBE (XP1MI)	C	XP	37	Unknown	53
XP3BE	C	XP	37	Lung cancer/metastatic melanoma^§	5 6 20 42
XP29BE	D	XP	37	Neurological degeneration	45 56
XP7BE	D	XP	42	Neurological degeneration	6 20
XP12BE	A	XP	44	Neurological degeneration	2 6 20 26 33 58
XP32BE	D	XP	46	Neurological degeneration	This study
XP1BE	C	XP	49	Uterine cancer	6 20 26 29 40 42 43 56
XP14BE	C	XP	73	Schwannoma	6

↵* XP/CS indicates xeroderma pigmentosum/Cockayne syndrome complex. XP/TTD indicates xeroderma pigmentosum/trichothiodystrophy.
↵† XP6BE died from invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC); however, the patient also had neurologic degeneration.
↵‡ XP23BE died from metastatic melanoma; however, the patient also had astrocytoma of spinal cord.
↵§ XP3BE died from lung cancer; however, the patient also had metastatic melanoma.