Table 2. New cancer in 6401 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the skin in Northern Ireland: 1993–2002 (all ages).
| Cancer in men | Cancer in women | Cancer in men and women | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site | ICD 10 | n | SIR (95% CI) | n | SIR (95% CI) | n | SIR (95% CI) | 
| All | C00–C97 | 549 | 1.58 (1.44, 1.71)* | 307 | 1.55 (1.38, 1.73)* | 856 | 1.57 (1.46, 1.67)* | 
| All excluding non-melanoma skin cancer | C00–C97 ex C44 | 352 | 1.34 (1.20, 1.48)* | 174 | 1.21 (1.03, 1.39)* | 526 | 1.29 (1.18, 1.40)* | 
| Skin, melanoma | C43 | 12 | 3.13 (1.36, 4.91)* | 3 | 0.86 (−0.11, 1.82) | 15 | 2.04 (1.01, 3.08)* | 
| Skin, basal cell | C44 | 197 | 1.97 (1.69, 2.25)* | 133 | 2.19 (1.81, 2.56)* | 330 | 2.05 (1.83, 2.27)* | 
| Lung | C33, C34 | 47 | 0.94 (0.67, 1.21) | 23 | 1.40 (0.83, 1.98) | 70 | 1.05 (0.81, 1.30) | 
| Breast (female only) | C50 | 17 | 0.58 (0.30, 0.86) | ||||
| Cervix | C53 | 4 | 2.89 (0.06, 5.72) | ||||
| Uterus | C54 | 4 | 0.92 (0.02, 1.81) | ||||
| Ovary | C56 | 3 | 0.52 (−0.07, 1.11) | ||||
| Prostate | C61 | 58 | 1.01 (0.75, 1.27) | ||||
| Oesophagus and stomach | C15, C16 | 32 | 1.48 (0.97, 2.00) | 12 | 1.16 (0.50, 1.81) | 44 | 1.38 (0.97, 1.78) | 
| Oesophagus | C15 | 13 | 1.76 (0.80, 2.72) | 6 | 1.52 (0.30, 2.73) | 19 | 1.68 (0.92, 2.43) | 
| Stomach | C16 | 19 | 1.34 (0.74, 1.94) | 6 | 0.94 (0.19, 1.68) | 25 | 1.21 (0.74, 1.69) | 
| Colorectal | C18–C21 | 49 | 1.13 (0.81, 1.44) | 23 | 0.93 (0.55, 1.32) | 72 | 1.06 (0.81, 1.30) | 
| Colon | C18 | 31 | 1.09 (0.71, 1.48) | 15 | 0.87 (0.43, 1.32) | 46 | 1.01 (0.72, 1.30) | 
| Rectum | C19–C21 | 18 | 1.19 (0.64, 1.74) | 8 | 1.07 (0.33, 1.82) | 26 | 1.15 (0.71, 1.60) | 
| Haematological malignancies | C81–C96 | 26 | 1.25 (0.77, 1.73) | 16 | 1.37 (0.70, 2.04) | 42 | 1.29 (0.90, 1.69) | 
| Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | C82–C85 | 9 | 1.14 (0.39, 1.88) | 8 | 1.45 (0.44, 2.45) | 17 | 1.26 (0.66, 1.87) | 
| Tobacco-related cancers | C00–C14, C15, C16, C22, C25, C32, C33, C34, C53, C64–C66, C67, C68, C92 | 139 | 1.21 (1.01, 1.41)* | 67 | 1.49 (1.13, 1.85)* | 206 | 1.29 (1.11, 1.46)* | 
CI=confidence interval; SIR=standardised incidence ratio. Bold values indicate *P<0.05.