Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of incident cancer cases diagnosed 1985–1994 among autoworkers in the United Autoworker-General Motors incidence cohort who were alive in 1985. (median (IQR), unless otherwise noted)

	Male Workers				Female Workers
	All Cancers Combined	Prostate Cancer	Lung Cancer	Colorectal Cancer	All Cancers Combined
N	1,517	384	340	182	222
Year of birth	1926 (1920–1933)	1923 (1919–1929)	1925 (1920–1932)	1925 (1919–1931)	1928 (1920–1942)
Year entered cohort	1956 (1952–1969)	1956 (1951–1966)	1956 (1952–1967)	1956 (1951–1969)	1970 (1955–1979)
Race; n (%)
White	1178 (77.7)	266 (69.3)	265 (77.9)	144 (79.1)	179 (80.6)
African American	339 (22.4)	118 (30.7)	75 (22.1)	38 (20.9)	43 (19.4)
Age at diagnosis	65.1 (57.3–70.4)	68.2 (63.1–72)	65.5 (57.5–71.5)	65.5 (59.5–69.8)	62.4 (50.1–70)
Deceased; n (%)	1276 (84.1)	286 (74.5)	336 (98.8)	155 (85.2)	161 (72.5)
Survival among deceased, years	1.4 (0.1–6.9)	6.5 (2.6–11.9)	0.2 (0–1.1)	2.7 (0.7–10.2)	1.5 (0.3–8.9)
Termination status; n (%)
At Work	394 (26)	67 (17.5)	65 (19.1)	39 (21.4)	81 (36.5)
Left Work	1123 (74)	317 (82.6)	275 (80.9)	143 (78.6)	141 (63.5)
Age left work	54.9 (36.4–61.8)	57.4 (43.7–62.3)	52.4 (36.5–60.7)	57.1 (35.7–62)	49.4 (37.5–58.2)