Table 2. Skin cancer burden estimation results.
| Agent | Number of men ever exposed | Number of women ever exposed | Proportion of men ever exposed | Proportion of women ever exposed | AF men (95% CI) | AF women (95% CI) | Attributable deaths (men) (95% CI) | Attributable deaths (women) (95% CI) | Attributable registrations (men) (95% CI) | Attributable registrations (women) (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Non-melanoma skin cancer
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| Mineral oils | 5,462,177 | 473,380 | 0.2816 | 0.0225 | 0.0215 (0.0000–0.1069) | 0.0039 (0.0000–0.0210) | 6 (0–31) | 1 (0–4) | 781 (0–3889) | 121 (0–648) |
| PAHs – coal tars and pitches | 346,466 | 0 | 0.0179 | 0 | 0.0130 (0.0022–0.0297) | 0 (0) | 4 (1–9) | 0 | 475 (72–1094) | 0 |
| Solar radiation | 3,735,036 | 1,781,937 | 0.1925 | 0.0849 | 0.0361 (0.0186–0.0550) | 0.0074 (0.0018–0.0135) | 11 (5–16) | 2 (0–3) | 1312 (678–2003) | 229 (57–416) |
| Totalsa | 0.0691 (0.0131–0.1498) | 0.0113 (0.0000–0.0291) | 20 (4–44) | 2 (0–6) | 2513 (478–5448) | 349 (0–899) | ||||
| Melanoma: AF not determined | ||||||||||
Abbreviations: AF=attributable fraction; PAH=polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
a
Totals are the product sums and are not therefore equal to the sums of the separate estimates of AF, deaths and registrations for each agent. The difference is especially notable where the constituent AFs are large.