Table 1. LSS Lung Cancer Cases and Crude Rate (Cases per 10,000 Person-Years) bv Histological Type and Sex.
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| Cases | (%) | Rate | Cases | (%) | Rate | Cases | (%) | Rate | |
| Epithelial cancers | |||||||||
| Adenocarcinoma | 315 | (29.4) | 2.99 | 321 | (43.9) | 1.84 | 636 | (35.3) | 2.27 |
| Squamous-cell carcinoma | 254 | (23.7) | 2.41 | 76 | (10.4) | 0.43 | 330 | (18.3) | 1.18 |
| Small-cell carcinoma | 129 | (12.0) | 1.22 | 65 | (8.9) | 0.37 | 194 | (10.8) | 0.69 |
| Large-cell carcinoma | 33 | (3.1) | 0.31 | 13 | (1.8) | 0.07 | 46 | (2.6) | 0.16 |
| Other epithelial cancers | 45 | (4.2) | 0.43 | 29 | (4.0) | 0.17 | 74 | (4.1) | 0.26 |
| Non epithelial cancers | |||||||||
| Mesothelioma | 13 | (1.2) | 0.12 | 4 | (0.5) | 0.02 | 17 | (0.9) | 0.06 |
| Lymphoma | 2 | (0.2) | 0.02 | 2 | (0.3) | 0.01 | 4 | (0.2) | 0.01 |
| Unclassified lung cancers | |||||||||
| Not otherwise specified (NOS) | 281 | (26.2) | 2.67 | 221 | (30.2) | 1.26 | 502 | (27.8) | 1.79 |
| Total | 1072 | (100) | 10.17 | 731 | (100) | 4.18 | 1803 | (100) | 6.43 |
| Person-years | 1,053,713 | 1,749,254 | 2,802,967 | ||||||
| Subjects | 42.889 | 62,515 | 105.404 | ||||||