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Table 2 Descriptive results of the re-settler cohort for the follow-up period 1990–2009

From: Stage of cancer diagnoses among migrants from the former Soviet Union in comparison to the German population – are diagnoses among migrants delayed?

Number of cohort members

18,619

 Male

8976 (48.2%)

 Female

9643 (51.8%)

Immigration period

1990–2005

 1990–1993

6933

 1994–1997

6536

 1998–2005

5150

End of follow-up

 Alive

16,391 (88.0%)

 Dead

1314 (7.1%)

 Cause of death known

1204 (91.6%)

 Lost to follow up

914 (4.9%)

 

Incidence (inside Saarland)

Mortality (Germany-wide)

Person-years

204,366.3

243,369.1

 Males

98,622.6

117,310.7

 Females

105,743.7

126,059.1