Table 1.

Pearson’s Correlation ‘R’ of PALI and PAHI with Age-Standardized Incidence Rates of Cancers in 158.0 Countries

Cancer type	PALI				PAHI
	Crude ‘R’	p-value	Adjusteda ‘R’	p-value	Crude ‘R’	p-value	Adjusteda ‘R’
All forms of cancer	0.3	0.001*	0.1	0.333	0.5	<0.001*	0.4
Lung cancer	0.2	0.022*	0.2	0.148	0.5	<0.001*	0.4
Breast cancer	0.4	<0.001*	0.2	0.053	0.6	<0.001*	0.5
Colorectal cancer	0.4	<0.001*	0.3	<0.001*	0.6	<0.001*	0.5
Prostate cancer	0.3	0.001*	0.0	0.732	0.4	<0.001*	0.2

^aAdjusted for population size; electricity consumption in kWh; air pollution (particulate matter PM10 in µg/m3); and total land area of the country covered by the forest in sq. km;

^*Statistically significant relationship