Table 4

Observed number of cases or deaths and standardised incidence ratios (SIRs) or standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) with 95% CIs for selected cancer sites in men in the Norwegian Fire Departments Cohort stratified by age at diagnosis (n=4295)

Cancer site	ICD-10	Age at diagnosis
		≤49 years (65 816 pyr)			50–69 years (40 232 pyr)			≥70 years (11 410 pyr)
		Obs.	Ratio	95% CI	Obs.	Ratio	95% CI	Obs.	Ratio	95% CI
All cancers, SIR	C00-C97	72	0.99	0.78 to 1.25	404	1.09	0.98 to 1.20	440	1.25	1.14 to 1.37
All cancers, SMR	C00-C97	16	0.77	0.44 to 1.25	137	0.99	0.83 to 1.17	223	1.19	1.04 to 1.36
Oesophagus, SIR	C15	0	0.00	0.00 to 5.74	7	1.42	0.57 to 2.93	7	1.94	0.78 to 3.99
Oesophagus*, SMR	C15	0	0.00	0.00 to 9.25	7	1.74	0.70 to 3.59	7	2.06	0.83 to 4.25
Stomach, SIR	C16	<5	1.24	0.26 to 3.63	22	1.51	0.95 to 2.28	16	1.18	0.67 to 1.91
Stomach*, SMR	C16	<5	1.79	0.37 to 5.24	14	1.29	0.70 to 2.16	13	1.16	0.62 to 1.98
Colon, SIR	C18	<5	0.74	0.15 to 2.16	30	1.11	0.75 to 1.59	49	1.47	1.09 to 1.94
Colon, SMR	C18	<5	0.70	0.02 to 3.89	17	1.60	0.93 to 2.57	17	0.99	0.58 to 1.59
Rectum, rectosigmoid, SIR	C19-C21	<5	1.12	0.23 to 3.28	19	0.91	0.55 to 1.42	20	1.11	0.68 to 1.71
Rectum, rectosigmoid, SMR	C19-C21	0	0.00	0.00 to 3.69	6	0.85	0.31 to 1.86	15	1.68	0.94 to 2.78
Liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, SIR	C22-C24	<5	1.34	0.03 to 7.46	5	1.05	0.34 to 2.46	9	2.05	0.94 to 3.89
Liver, gallbladder, bile ducts*, SMR	C22-C24	<5	1.81	0.05 to 10.1	<5	1.17	0.32 to 2.99	9	2.47	1.13 to 4.69
Larynx, SIR	C32	0	0.00	0.00 to 5.69	<5	0.68	0.14 to 2.00	10	4.10	1.97 to 7.55
Larynx, SMR	C32	0	0.00	0.00 to 32.7	<5	0.92	0.02 to 5.13	<5	3.71	1.01 to 9.50
Lung, SIR	C33-C34	<5	0.93	0.25 to 2.38	35	0.76	0.53 to 1.06	52	1.34	1.00 to 1.75
Lung, SMR	C33-C34	<5	0.68	0.08 to 2.45	24	0.67	0.43 to 1.00	41	1.20	0.86 to 1.63
Cutaneous melanoma, SIR	C43	10	1.11	0.53 to 2.05	24	1.32	0.84 to 1.96	16	1.33	0.76 to 2.17
Cutaneous melanoma, SMR	C43	0	0.00	0.00 to 1.80	10	2.43	1.17 to 4.47	<5	0.91	0.19 to 2.67
Non-melanoma skin†, SIR	C44	<5	1.22	0.15 to 4.42	11	1.04	0.52 to 1.86	24	0.92	0.59 to 1.37
Non-melanoma skin†, SMR	C44	0	0.00	0.00 to 95.0	0	0.00	0.00 to 9.69	<5	1.26	0.03 to 7.03
Mesothelioma, SIR	C45	0	0.00	0.00 to 28.4	<5	2.86	0.78 to 7.33	<5	2.53	0.69 to 6.48
Mesothelioma*, SMR	C45	0	0.00	0.00 to 148	<5	4.36	0.90 to 12.7	<5	1.83	0.22 to 6.60
Prostate, SIR	C61	<5	2.42	0.66 to 6.20	120	1.25	1.03 to 1.49	107	1.09	0.89 to 1.32
Prostate, SMR	C61	0	0.00	0.00 to 20.6	8	0.76	0.33 to 1.49	47	1.07	0.79 to 1.43
Testis, SIR	C62	16	1.44	0.82 to 2.34	<5	1.02	0.12 to 3.68	0	0.00	0.00 to 11.7
Testis, SMR	C62	0	0.00	0.00 to 4.48	0	0.00	0.00 to 11.3	0	0.00	0.00 to 23.9
Kidney‡, SIR	C64	<5	0.71	0.09 to 2.58	12	0.90	0.46 to 1.57	18	2.17	1.29 to 3.43
Kidney‡, SMR	C64	<5	2.79	0.34 to 10.1	<5	0.77	0.21 to 1.96	6	1.14	0.42 to 2.48
Urinary tract§, SIR	C65-C68	<5	0.97	0.20 to 2.83	25	0.96	0.62 to 1.42	45	1.47	1.07 to 1.96
Urinary tract§, SMR	C65-C68	0	0.00	0.00 to 11.2	<5	0.73	0.15 to 2.12	13	1.33	0.71 to 2.27
Thyroid, SIR	C73	<5	0.69	0.02 to 3.84	<5	1.91	0.52 to 4.88	<5	1.05	0.03 to 5.86
Thyroid, SMR	C73	0	0.00	0.00 to 44.8	<5	2.60	0.07 to 14.5	<5	2.23	0.06 to 12.4
Hodgkin lymphoma, SIR	C81	0	0.00	0.00 to 1.39	<5	1.37	0.17 to 4.96	0	0.00	0.00 to 5.98
Hodgkin lymphoma, SMR	C81	0	0.00	0.00 to 5.93	<5	1.75	0.04 to 9.75	0	0.00	0.00 to 9.11
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, SIR	C82-C86, C96	6	1.48	0.54 to 3.22	14	1.21	0.66 to 2.04	7	0.83	0.33 to 1.70
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, SMR	C82-C86, C96	0	0.00	0.00 to 2.71	5	1.24	0.40 to 2.90	<5	0.80	0.22 to 2.06
Multiple myeloma, SIR	C90	0	0.00	0.00 to 3.51	5	0.86	0.28 to 2.00	5	0.90	0.29 to 2.10
Multiple myeloma, SMR	C90	0	0.00	0.00 to 10.4	<5	0.65	0.08 to 2.35	6	1.36	0.50 to 2.96
Leukaemia, SIR	C91-C95	<5	0.39	0.01 to 2.18	8	0.97	0.42 to 1.91	6	0.81	0.30 to 1.77
Leukaemia, SMR	C91-C95	0	0.00	0.00 to 2.43	6	1.51	0.55 to 3.28	6	1.07	0.39 to 2.33

Follow-up from 1 January 1960 to 31 December 2018.
*Observed number of deaths corrected to be in line with morphologically confirmed diagnoses, as described in the text (Results, paragraph 3–6).
†Excluding basal cell carcinoma.
‡Excluding renal pelvis.
§Including bladder and renal pelvis.
ICD, International Classification of Diseases; Obs., observed; pyr, person-years.