Cancer incidence 1961–96 among cabin crew at the Swedish SAS compared to the general Swedish population
| Cancer site (ICD-7 code) | Women | Men | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O* | E† | SIR‡ | 95% CI | O* | E† | SIR‡ | 95% CI | |
| Cancer sites with less than two observed cases are not shown in the table. | ||||||||
| *Observed number of cases. | ||||||||
| †Expected number of cases, taking age and calendar period into consideration. | ||||||||
| ‡SIR, standardised incidence ratio. | ||||||||
| §Basal cell carcinoma is not included since this diagnosis was not reported to the National Cancer Register. | ||||||||
| All cancer (140–207) | 76 | 75.27 | 1.01 | 0.78 to 1.24 | 33 | 28.54 | 1.16 | 0.76 to 1.55 |
| Colon (153) | 1 | 3.05 | 0.33 | 0.01 to 1.83 | 3 | 1.87 | 1.61 | 0.33 to 4.70 |
| Rectum (154) | 2 | 1.68 | 1.19 | 0.14 to 4.29 | 1 | 1.33 | 0.75 | 0.02 to 4.18 |
| Pancreas (157) | 2 | 0.89 | 2.24 | 0.27 to 8.08 | 0 | 0.81 | – | 0.00 to 4.57 |
| Lung (162) | 3 | 2.70 | 1.11 | 0.23 to 3.24 | 2 | 2.97 | 0.67 | 0.08 to 2.43 |
| Breast (170) | 33 | 25.45 | 1.30 | 0.85 to 1.74 | 0 | 0.05 | – | 0.00 to 71.74 |
| Cervix uteri (171) | 4 | 5.67 | 0.70 | 0.19 to 1.81 | – | – | – | – |
| Corpus uteri (172) | 2 | 3.22 | 0.62 | 0.08 to 2.25 | – | – | – | – |
| Ovary (175) | 2 | 4.78 | 0.42 | 0.05 to 1.51 | – | – | – | – |
| Prostate (177) | – | – | – | – | 2 | 4.20 | 0.48 | 0.06 to 1.72 |
| Kidney (180) | 2 | 1.20 | 1.67 | 0.20 to 6.04 | 0 | 1.28 | – | 0.00 to 2.89 |
| Urinary bladder (181) | 0 | 0.94 | – | 0.00 to 3.90 | 4 | 1.98 | 2.02 | 0.55 to 5.18 |
| Malignant melanoma of the skin (190) | 11 | 5.04 | 2.18 | 1.09 to 3.90 | 6 | 1.64 | 3.66 | 1.34 to 7.97 |
| Head and neck (190.0–190.4) | 1 | 0.31 | 3.24 | 0.08 to 18.04 | 1 | 0.17 | 6.05 | 0.15 to 33.72 |
| Trunk (190.5) | 7 | 1.57 | 4.46 | 1.79 to 9.19 | 5 | 0.86 | 5.82 | 1.89 to 13.57 |
| Limbs (190.6–190.7) | 3 | 2.78 | 1.08 | 0.22 to 3.16 | 0 | 0.45 | – | 0.00 to 8.22 |
| Non-melanoma skin (191)§ | 0 | 0.85 | – | 0.00 to 4.35 | 4 | 0.90 | 4.42 | 1.20 to 11.32 |
| Kaposi’s sarcoma (191 & pad 505) | 0 | 0.01 | – | 0.00 to 537.76 | 1 | 0.01 | 105.33 | 2.63 to 586.90 |
| Brain and nervous system (193) | 4 | 3.82 | 1.05 | 0.29 to 2.68 | 1 | 1.54 | 0.65 | 0.02 to 3.63 |
| Unspecified sites (199) | 1 | 1.46 | 0.68 | 0.02 to 3.80 | 3 | 0.89 | 3.38 | 0.70 to 9.88 |
| Leukaemia (204–207) | 4 | 1.27 | 3.14 | 0.86 to 8.04 | 1 | 0.85 | 1.17 | 0.03 to 6.54 |