Table 2.
Cancer site-specific suicide rates according to sex
| Men |
Women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons | Suicides | SMR (95% CI) | Suicides per 100,000 person- years |
Persons | Suicides | SMR (95% CI) | Suicides per 100,000 person- ears |
|
| Esophagus | 34,287 | 85 | 5.10 (4.08, 6.31) | 143.69 | 9,625 | 3 | 3.54 (0.73, 10.35) | 18.34 |
| Colon | 155,735 | 261 | 1.35 (1.19, 1.53) | 38.99 | 163,126 | 50 | 1.43 (1.06, 1.88) | 7.19 |
| Rectum and rectosigmoid junction | 76,732 | 166 | 1.72 (1.47, 2.00) | 47.41 | 58,181 | 19 | 1.21 (0.73, 1.89) | 7.04 |
| Liver and intrahepatic bile duct | 58,920 | 44 | 2.19 (1.59, 2.94) | 51.90 | 22,764 | 3 | 1.63 (0.34, 4.78) | 8.87 |
| Pancreas | 59,300 | 87 | 5.95 (4.76, 7.33) | 162.83 | 59,894 | 6 | 2.01 (0.74, 4.37) | 10.98 |
| Stomach | 46,143 | 75 | 3.01 (2.37, 3.77) | 77.84 | 30,170 | 6 | 1.68 (0.62, 3.65) | 8.62 |
| Othera | 34,511 | 57 | 2.10 (1.59, 2.72) | 57.17 | 46,904 | 19 | 2.32 (1.40, 3.62) | 13.91 |
a
Other includes small intestine, anus, anal canal and anorectum, gallbladder, other biliary, retroperitoneum, peritoneum, omentum, and mesentery, and other digestive organs