Diverging trends in educational inequalities in cancer mortality between men and women in the 2000s in France

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Table 2 Various measures of educational differences in mortality for total cancer and cancer specific mortality during the period 1990–1998 and 1999–2007 among men aged 30-74

	N_deaths	MR¹	RD²	PAF³	AD⁴	RII⁵	95% CI	p for trend⁶
1999 - 2007
All cancers	3664	312	256	0.40	126	2.42	2.13-2.74
Lung	1015	86	69	0.38	32	2.45	1.93-3.12
UADT⁷	427	37	55	0.79	29	5.74	3.91-8.44
Colorectal	289	24	9	0.15	4	1.52	0.98-2.35
Liver	212	18	18	0.65	12	3.24	1.89-5.57
Lymphatic and haematopoietic tissue	209	18	2	0.07	1	1.07	0.65-1.77
Oesophagus	197	17	26	0.72	12	6.04	3.38-10.8
Pancreas	174	15	4	0.04	1	1.90	1.07-3.36
Prostate	189	15	10	0.31	5	1.21	0.71-2.06
Stomach	102	9	12	0.58	5	3.68	1.69-8.02
Bladder	111	9	−2	−0.04	0	3.57	1.68-7.57
Kidney	105	9	10	0.57	5	0.75	0.37-1.50
Brain and central nervous system	83	8	4	0.19	1	0.95	0.42-2.11
Other	551	47	39	0.37	17	2.47	1.79-3.42
1990 - 1998
All cancers	4281	375	282	0.48	180	2.16	1.92-2.43	0.11
Lung	1136	100	83	0.53	52	2.05	1.64-2.57	0.28
UADT⁷	628	58	75	0.82	47	4.79	3.49-6.58	0.34
Colorectal	317	27	5	0.05	1	1.49	0.98-2.27	0.71
Liver	298	25	22	0.56	14	2.32	1.48-3.64	0.31
Lymphatic and haematopoietic tissue	231	20	4	0.14	3	1.31	0.80-2.13	0.75
Oesophagus	248	22	27	0.66	15	4.96	2.96-8.31	0.48
Pancreas	177	15	6	0.39	6	1.19	0.68-2.07	0.22
Prostate	194	16	8	0.46	7	1.23	0.72-2.10	0.70
Stomach	141	12	8	0.45	6	3.36	1.71-6.60	0.98
Bladder	130	11	6	0.55	6	2.04	1.03-4.02	0.39
Kidney	103	9	14	0.83	7	1.37	0.65-2.85	0.16
Brain and central nervous system	96	9	3	−0.11	−1	2.20	1.02-4.74	0.08
Other	582	51	22	0.30	15	1.55	1.14-2.11	0.03

¹Age standardized mortality rate, per 100000 person years; ²Rate difference; ³Population attributable fraction; ⁴Number of deaths attributable to differences in education, computed as the product of PAF by MR; ⁵relative index of inequality; ⁶comparison of the RII for the two periods; ⁷UADT = upper aerodigestive tract (lip, oral cavity, pharynx and larynx).
ICD codes: total cancer (140–239 in ICD-9; C00-D47 in ICD-10), and the following cancer sites: UADT (140–149, 161; C00-14, C32), oesophagus (150; C15), stomach (151; C16), colorectal (153–154; C18-C21), liver (155; C22), pancreas (157; C25), lung (162; C33-34), prostate (185; C61), kidney (189; C64-C66, C68), bladder (188;C67), brain and central nervous system (191–192; C70-C72), lymphatic and haemaopoietic tissue (200–208; C81-C96), and other cancers (the rest of 140–239; the rest of C00-D47).

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