Table 1. For each region, attained-age- and birth-cohort-specific annual changes in the incidence of stage 2–4 breast cancer in the 8-year period 2000–2007.

		Region 1	Region 2
Attained Age*
50–54		-1%	+1%
55–59		-9%	+1%
60–64		-7%	+4%
Age in 2000** [Born]	Followed to Ages
50–54 [1946–1950]	57–61	-3%	+5%
55–59 [1941–1945]	62–66	-7%	+5%
60–64 [1936–1940]	69–71	-3%	+4%
Reached age 50 in year**	Followed to Ages
2001–2005 [1951–1955]	52–56	-5%	+3%

*The first three rows show results for 3 ‘horizontal’ age-bands, each five years wide: each band contains 12 of the total of 22 birth cohorts that traverse the 3 x 5 x 8 = 120 Lexis cells.

**The remaining rows group 145 Lexis cells by birth cohorts, into 4 ‘diagonal’ bands, each one 5 birth cohorts wide (the 3 cells traversed by the birth cohorts that reached age 50 in 2006 and 2007 are omitted).

Each ‘slope’, expressed as a percentage, was derived from the coefficient of ‘year’ in the fitted Poisson/Joinpoint regression.