. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 3.

Published in final edited form as: Health Phys. 2010 Aug;99(2):105–123. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181dc523c

Table 10.

Projected number of lifetime baseline and excess cancers for the entire population of the Marshall Islands by cancer type and comparison with the results of the NCI preliminary study (DCEG 2004).

				This study (Land et al. 2010)
	Preliminary study (DCEG 2004)			Baseline number of cancers^a	Projected excess number of cancers 1948–2008	Projected excess number of cancers from 2009 onwards	Rounded total number of cancers
Cancer type	Baseline number of cancers^a	Excess number of cancers	Total number of cancers	Baseline number of cancers^a	Projected excess number of cancers 1948–2008	Projected excess number of cancers from 2009 onwards	Rounded total number of cancers
Leukemia	123	5	128	140	6.0	1.4	147
Thyroid	127	262	389	190	35	15	240
Stomach	326	15	341	570	3.1	3.6	577
Colon	470	157	627	930	7.2	9.3	946
All other solid cancers	4,550	93	4,643	8,800	54	36	8,890
Rounded total number of cancers	5,600	530	6,100	10,600	105	65	10,800

The 2004 preliminary analysis assumed the population size obtained by the 1958 census, while the present study is based upon the total number of people exposed anytime between 1948 and 1970, which is projected to be about twice the size of the 1958 population.