Table 2. Age-specific, crude and age-standardised incidence rates of BCC and SCC among women in the Federal State of Saarland, 1995–1999.

	BCC			SCC
Age (years)	N	Rate	s.e.	N	Rate	s.e.
30–34	26	11.7	2.30	0	0.0	0.00
35–39	34	15.4	2.64	0	0.0	0.00
40–44	53	26.3	3.61	4	2.0	0.99
45–49	79	43.8	4.93	1	0.6	0.56
50–54	88	59.8	6.38	5	3.4	1.52
55–59	178	91.2	6.83	17	8.7	2.11
60–64	224	123.9	8.28	24	13.3	2.71
65–69	243	153.0	9.81	23	14.5	3.02
70–74	287	179.1	10.57	50	31.2	4.41
75–79	305	267.8	15.34	72	63.2	7.45
80–84	253	331.5	20.84	83	108.7	11.94
85+	199	274.2	19.43	140	192.9	16.30
All ages
Crude	1977	71.1	1.60	420	15.1	0.74
WSR	1977	31.7	1.06	420	4.4	0.31

Rate=cases per 100 000; s.e.=standard error of the rate; crude=crude rate; WSR=age-standardised rate (World Standard Population); BCC=basal cell carcinoma; SCC=squamous cell carcinoma.