| Risk factor | Stomach cancer | Pleural cancer | Peritoneal cancer | Mesothelioma* | ||||
| Deaths | Relative risk(95% CI) | Deaths | Relative risk(95% CI) | Deaths | Relative risk(95% CI) | Deaths | Relative risk(95% CI) | |
| Period | ||||||||
| <1980 | 26 | 1.00 | 9 | 1.00 | 7 | 1.00 | 0 | – |
| 1980–89 | 96 | 0.79 (0.51 to 1.22) | 55 | 1.42 (0.70 to 2.89) | 36 | 1.26 (0.56 to 2.83) | 0 | – |
| 1990–99 | 132 | 0.53 (0.34 to 0.81) | 64 | 0.86 (0.42 to 1.73) | 40 | 0.75 (0.33 to 1.68) | 0 | – |
| >2000 | 68 | 0.31 (0.19 to 0.48) | 9 | 0.14 (0.06 to 0.36) | 2 | 0.04 (0.01 to 0.22) | 160 | – |
| Cohort | ||||||||
| <1920 | 90 | 1.00 | 28 | 1.00 | 11 | 1.00 | 6 | 1.00† |
| 1920–29 | 115 | 0.65 (0.49 to 0.85) | 54 | 0.84 (0.53 to 1.34) | 31 | 1.13 (0.56 to 2.27) | 30 | 1.98 (0.82 to 4.76) |
| 1930–39 | 77 | 0.46 (0.33 to 0.65) | 35 | 0.44 (0.26 to 0.77) | 30 | 0.76 (0.36 to 1.61) | 58 | 2.64 (1.14 to 6.12) |
| 1940–49 | 29 | 0.21 (0.13 to 0.35) | 17 | 0.18 (0.09 to 0.38) | 12 | 0.21 (0.08 to 0.57) | 54 | 1.73 (0.74 to 4.02) |
| 1950–59 | 11 | 0.12 (0.06 to 0.25) | 3 | 0.03 (0.01 to 0.12) | 1 | 0.02 (0.002 to 0.13) | 10 | 0.27 (0.10 to 0.74) |
| 1960–69 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 2 | 0.08 (0.02 to 0.41) |
| Year first exposed | ||||||||
| <1930 | 2 | 1.01 (0.24 to 4.25) | 1 | 0.73 (0.10 to 5.50) | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| 1930–39 | 23 | 1.00 | 17 | 1.00 | 9 | 1.00 | 0 | – |
| 1940–49 | 31 | 0.60 (0.35 to 1.03) | 24 | 0.57 (0.31 to 1.07) | 25 | 1.01 (0.47 to 2.16) | 11 | 1.00 |
| 1950–59 | 59 | 0.68 (0.42 to 1.10) | 40 | 0.49 (0.27 to 0.86) | 32 | 0.54 (0.25 to 1.16) | 60 | 3.22 (1.69 to 6.13) |
| 1960–69 | 79 | 0.61 (0.38 to 0.97) | 27 | 0.19 (0.10 to 0.35) | 8 | 0.06 (0.02 to 0.17) | 47 | 1.71 (0.88 to 3.31) |
| 1970–79 | 103 | 0.61 (0.38 to 0.97) | 21 | 0.09 (0.05 to 0.18) | 8 | 0.03 (0.01 to 0.09) | 27 | 0.76 (0.37 to 1.54) |
| 1980–89 | 24 | 0.35 (0.19 to 0.64) | 7 | 0.05 (0.02 to 0.14) | 3 | 0.02 (0.003 to 0.07) | 11 | 0.76 (0.32 to 1.80) |
| >1990 | 1 | 0.05 (0.01 to 0.40) | 0 | – | 0 | – | 4 | 1.02 (0.31 to 3.31) |
| Age first exposed (years) | ||||||||
| <20 | 41 | 1.00 | 45 | 1.00 | 49 | 1.00 | 69 | 1.00 |
| 20–29 | 68 | 1.01 (0.69 to 1.49) | 44 | 0.59 (0.39 to 0.90) | 21 | 0.26 (0.15 to 0.43) | 41 | 0.36 (0.25 to 0.54) |
| 30–39 | 80 | 1.18 (0.81 to 1.72) | 18 | 0.25 (0.14 to 0.43) | 5 | 0.06 (0.03 to 0.16) | 26 | 0.22 (0.14 to 0.34) |
| 40–49 | 79 | 1.17 (0.80 to 1.72) | 12 | 0.17 (0.09 to 0.33) | 3 | 0.04 (0.01 to 0.14) | 13 | 0.10 (0.06 to 0.19) |
| >50 | 54 | 1.15 (0.76 to 1.75) | 18 | 0.39 (0.22 to 0.68) | 7 | 0.15 (0.07 to 0.34) | 11 | 0.12 (0.06 to 0.23) |
| Length of exposure (years) | ||||||||
| <10 | 33 | 1.00 | 17 | 1.00 | 10 | 1.00 | 4 | 1.00 |
| 10–19 | 85 | 1.33 (0.88 to 2.01) | 8 | 0.36 (0.15 to 0.83) | 1 | 0.12 (0.01 to 0.93) | 8 | 1.60 (0.48 to 5.38) |
| 20–29 | 81 | 1.06 (0.70 to 1.63) | 37 | 1.75 (0.94 to 3.08) | 15 | 2.68 (1.10 to 6.55) | 28 | 6.27 (2.12 to 18.5) |
| 30–39 | 58 | 1.05 (0.66 to 1.64) | 38 | 2.86 (1.49 to 5.49) | 27 | 9.87 (3.97 to 24.6) | 42 | 15.2 (5.16 to 45.0) |
| >40 | 65 | 1.15 (0.72 to 1.83) | 37 | 3.54 (1.74 to 7.23) | 32 | 21.6 (7.69 to 60.6) | 78 | 37.6 (12.4 to 114) |
| Latency (years since first exposure) | ||||||||
| <20 | 98 | 1.00 | 24 | 1.00 | 10 | 1.00 | 10 | 1.00 |
| 20–29 | 87 | 0.95 (0.70 to 1.28) | 31 | 2.08 (1.19 to 3.64) | 12 | 3.47 (1.43 to 8.44) | 20 | 3.36 (1.54 to 7.33) |
| 30–39 | 65 | 0.88 (0.63 to 1.22) | 35 | 3.45 (1.95 to 6.11) | 25 | 14.1 (5.99 to 33.4) | 45 | 11.2 (5.40 to 23.4) |
| 40–49 | 42 | 0.83 (0.57 to 1.22) | 36 | 6.22 (3.40 to 11.4) | 28 | 37.0 (14.4 to 94.9) | 54 | 23.9 (11.2 to 51.1) |
| 50–59 | 23 | 0.89 (0.55 to 1.45) | 11 | 4.61 (2.04 to 10.4) | 9 | 39.2 (12.1 to 127) | 29 | 31.9 (13.7 to 74.0) |
| >60 | 7 | 1.18 (0.54 to 2.60) | 0 | – | 1 | 24.7 (2.68 to 228) | 2 | 10.7 (2.17 to 52.6) |
| Smoking status‡ | ||||||||
| Never | 39 | 1.00 | 18 | 1.00 | 10 | 1.00 | 29 | 1.00 |
| Former | 102 | 1.50 (1.03 to 2.17) | 41 | 1.47 (0.84 to 2.58) | 33 | 2.27 (1.11 to 4.65) | 51 | 0.97 (0.61 to 1.55) |
| Current | 170 | 1.58 (1.12 to 2.24) | 69 | 1.45 (0.86 to 2.44) | 39 | 1.50 (0.75 to 3.00) | 77 | 0.94 (0.61 to 1.44) |
| Main job‡ | ||||||||
| Manufacturing | 174 | 1.00 | 52 | 1.00 | 8 | 1.00 | 48 | 1.00 |
| Removal | 44 | 0.63 (0.44 to 0.92) | 29 | 1.06 (0.66 to 1.69) | 30 | 6.38 (2.88 to 14.1) | 65 | 3.30 (2.23 to 4.86) |
| “Other” | 71 | 1.08 (0.77 to 1.50) | 24 | 1.28 (0.79 to 2.08) | 9 | 3.06 (1.18 to 7.92) | 19 | 1.11 (0.65 to 1.88) |
| Insulation | 32 | 1.30 (0.84 to 2.01) | 31 | 3.60 (2.30 to 5.62) | 36 | 26.1 (12.1 to 56.1) | 26 | 3.37 (2.09 to 5.44) |
| Short/longer-term worker (reference category short-term) | ||||||||
| Short-term | 147 | 1.00 | 56 | 1.00 | 34 | 1.00 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Long-term | 175 | 1.01 (0.81 to 1.26) | 81 | 1.27 (0.90 to 1.78) | 51 | 1.35 (0.88 to 2.09) | 101 | 1.46 (1.06 to 2.01) |
*ICD-10 mesothelioma deaths (2001–2005); †cohort only adjusted for sex due to collinearity with age; ‡missing values occurred in this variable.