Table 4 Standardized mortality ratio of LSS group compared with JPCG for selected cancers
From: Cancer mortality among atomic bomb survivors exposed as children
Cause of death | Male | Female | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
O a | E b | SMRc (95% CI) | p valued | O a | E b | SMRc (95% CI) | p valued | |
All deaths | 555 | 517.1 | 1.073 (0.988–1.164) | 0.100 | 264 | 276.9 | 0.953 (0.845–1.072) | 0.456 |
All cancers | 127 | 101.5 | 1.251 (1.052–1.478) | 0.013 | 80 | 79.1 | 1.011 (0.813–1.245) | 0.964 |
Leukemia | 5 | 7.2 | 0.696 (0.307–1.426) | 0.530 | 3 | 4.9 | 0.607 (0.220–1.461) | 0.516 |
Solid cancers | 118 | 90.0 | 1.311 (1.095–1.558) | 0.004 | 73 | 71.8 | 1.017 (0.809–1.263) | 0.933 |
Stomach | 32 | 30.1 | 1.061 (0.753–1.460) | 0.805 | 20 | 22.2 | 0.899 (0.584–1.334) | 0.711 |
Colon | 8 | 5.1 | 1.556 (0.801–2.806) | 0.298 | 2 | 4.2 | 0.471 (0.146–1.312) | 0.397 |
Liver | 37 | 14.9 | 2.479 (1.802–3.340) | <0.001 | 6 | 2.2 | 2.674 (1.254–5.201) | 0.030 |
Lung | 8 | 10.2 | 0.787 (0.405–1.419) | 0.602 | 5 | 4.5 | 1.104 (0.486–2.261) | 0.989 |
Female breast | – | – | – | – | 10 | 10.3 | 0.968 (0.531–1.653) | 0.959 |
Uterus | – | – | – | – | 11 | 5.3 | 2.063 (1.163–3.450) | 0.025 |