Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between the age-adjusted cancer incidence rate and the various air pollutants by gender and urbanization degrees

0.457^a

0.276

0.515^a

−0.326

0.465^a

0.214

0.236

−0.037

−0.344

0.542^a

0.280

0.327^a

0.300

0.083

−0.210

0.132

0.195

0.163

0.131

−0.050

0.599^b

0.340^a

0.022

0.334^a

−0.136

0.244

0.285^a

−0.025

0.356^a

0.070

0.450^b

−0.011

0.340^a

0.013

−0.151

0.248^a

−0.099

0.236^a

−0.022

−0.128

0.664^b

0.144

0.179

−0.102

0.225

0.634^b

−0.067

0.305

−0.235

0.336

0.247

−0.147

0.211

−0.240

−0.138

0.122

−0.017

0.211

−0.181

0.028

0.371^a

−0.050

0.214

0.015

0.106

−0.218

−0.002

− 0.043

0.029

− 0.094