Table 6.
Time trends: regression analysis of cause-specific mortality in two years after diagnosis for specific cancers, hazard ratio (95% confidence interval), Australia (excluding Victoria), 1991-2005
| Colorectal | Lung | Breast | Prostate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous1 |
1.44 |
(1.05-1.97) |
1.42 |
(1.21-1.66) |
1.66 |
(1.06-2.61) |
5.59 |
(3.15-9.94) |
| Sex |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Female |
1.02 |
(1.00-1.04) |
0.90 |
(0.89-0.92) |
n/a |
|
n/a |
|
| Age at diagnosis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Non-indigenous |
1.03 |
(1.02-1.03) |
1.02 |
(1.02-1.02) |
1.04 |
(1.04-1.04) |
1.08 |
(1.08-1.08) |
| Indigenous |
1.00 |
(0.99-1.01) |
1.01 |
(1.01-1.02) |
1.00 |
(0.99-1.02) |
1.02 |
(1.00-1.05) |
| Remoteness (per ARIA category) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
| Non-indigenous |
1.08 |
(1.06-1.09) |
1.07 |
(1.06-1.08) |
1.06 |
(1.03-1.10) |
1.13 |
(1.10-1.16) |
| Indigenous |
1.19 |
(1.07-1.33) |
1.08 |
(1.03-1.14) |
1.29 |
(1.13-1.48) |
1.35 |
(1.12-1.64) |
| Year of diagnosis (per year) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
| Non-indigenous |
0.97 |
(0.97-0.98) |
0.99 |
(0.99-0.99) |
0.96 |
(0.95-0.96) |
0.96 |
(0.95-0.96) |
| Indigenous | 0.97 | (0.94-1.00) | 1.00 | (0.98-1.02) | 0.97 | (0.92-1.02) | 1.06 | (0.99-1.13) |
1Applies to the reference categories of the interaction terms (i.e., people of median age 59 years in 2005).