Observed (Obs) and expected (Exp) number of cancers, and SIR (95% CIs) among 1332 male bookbinders, printers, photoengravers, and typesetters (36217.5 person-years), followed up during 1955–98
| Cancer sites (ICD-7) | Obs | Exp | SIR | 95% CI | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Higher | ||||||||
| All cancers (140–205) | 125 | 123.66 | 1.01 | 0.84 | 1.20 | ||||
| Stomach (151) | 11 | 12.27 | 0.90 | 0.45 | 1.60 | ||||
| Colon (153) | 14 | 8.66 | 1.62 | 0.88 | 2.71 | ||||
| Rectum (154) | 2 | 3.32 | 0.60 | 0.07 | 2.17 | ||||
| Liver (155) | 4 | 1.97 | 2.03 | 0.55 | 5.20 | ||||
| Pancreas (157) | 3 | 3.60 | 0.83 | 0.17 | 2.43 | ||||
| Lung (162) | 15 | 15.78 | 0.95 | 0.53 | 1.57 | ||||
| Prostate (177) | 28 | 24.31 | 1.15 | 0.77 | 1.66 | ||||
| Testis (178) | 4 | 2.21 | 1.81 | 0.49 | 4.63 | ||||
| Kidney (180) | 4 | 6.59 | 0.61 | 0.16 | 1.55 | ||||
| Bladder (181) | 9 | 8.61 | 1.05 | 0.48 | 1.98 | ||||
| Skin melanoma (190) | 1 | 1.97 | 0.51 | 0.01 | 2.83 | ||||
| Other skin (191) | 2 | 3.06 | 0.65 | 0.07 | 2.36 | ||||
| Brain (193) | 4 | 4.55 | 0.88 | 0.24 | 2.25 | ||||
| Thyroid (194) | 1 | 2.81 | 0.36 | 0.00 | 1.98 | ||||
| Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (200, 202) | 8 | 3.58 | 2.24 | 0.96 | 4.41 | ||||
| Multiple myeloma (203) | 1 | 1.56 | 0.64 | 0.01 | 3.58 | ||||
| Leukaemia (204) | 1 | 3.01 | 0.33 | 0.00 | 1.85 | ||||
| All other sites (145, 150, 160, 161, 161, 170, 170, 179, 197, 199, 199, 199, 199) | 13 | 15.80 | 0.82 | 0.44 | 1.41 | ||||