Table 4
Mortality from selected cancers by exposure category
| Exposure category | Cancer of stomach | Cancer of female breast | Leukaemia | All lymphatic and haematopoietic cancers | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths observed | Deaths expected | SMR | Deaths observed | Deaths expected | SMR | Deaths observed | Deaths expected | SMR | Deaths observed | Deaths expected | SMR | |
| Chemical manufacturers | ||||||||||||
| Definite | 4 | 5.1 | 0.78 | – | – | – | 4 | 1.7 | 2.29 | 9 | 4.9 | 1.84 |
| Probable | 1 | 1.8 | 0.57 | – | – | – | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 2 | 1.9 | 1.07 |
| Unknown | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 1 | 1.2 | 0.82 |
| Hospitals | ||||||||||||
| Continual | 5 | 1.8 | 2.73 | 5 | 7.2 | 0.70 | 1 | 0.9 | 1.08 | 1 | 2.6 | 0.38 |
| Intermittent | 0 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 2.09 |
| Unknown | 0 | 1.4 | 0 | 6 | 5.2 | 1.16 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.48 |
