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. 2005 Jul 12;93(3):376–378. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602705

Table 1. Person-years, number of cervical cancers, incidence density and incidence density ratio (IDR) among not invited and invited women and, within invited, among attenders and nonattenders.

  Person-years Cancer casesa Crude incidence (per 105 py) Age-standardised incidenceb IDRc 95% CI
Not invited 1 265 075 118 9.3 8.6 1.0  
Invited 918 862 72 7.8 6.9 0.81 0.59–1.09
Invited nonattenders 570 186 61 10.7 9.5 1.0  
Invited attenders 348 676 11 3.2 3.0 0.25 0.13–0.50
a

Cases with morphology specified as nonsquamous or staged as microinvasive excluded.

b

Standardised on the world population truncated 24–69 years, per 100 000 py.

c

Adjusted for age in 5-year groups by Poisson regression.