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Table 4 Cohort and period effect curvature points of change on breast cancer in women and prostate cancer mortality, Spain 1952–2011

From: Breast and prostate cancer: an analysis of common epidemiological features in mortality trends in Spain

 

Changes in cohort effect curvature

 

Slope* (95% CI)

Birth year (95% CI)

Slope (95% CI)

Birth year (95% CI)

Slope (95% CI)

Birth year (95% CI)

Slope (95% CI)

Breast cancer

−0.007 (−0.002, −0.012)

1894 (1889–1900)

0.010 (0.007, 0.013)

1931 (1926–1935)

−0.008 (−0.011, −0.006)

1969 (1965–1972)

−0.044 (−0.056,-0.032)

Prostate cancer

0.027 (0.016, 0.038)

1891 (1886–1899)

−0.001 (−0.002, 0.001)

  

1960 (1959–1962)

−0.128 (−0.163, −0.091)

 

Changes in period effect curvature

  

Year of death (95% CI)

 

Year of death (95% CI)

   

Breast cancer

0.029 (0.015, 0.043)

1965 (1960–1969)

0.007 (0.005, 0.01)

1992 (1990–1993)

−0.030 (−0.034, −0.025)

  

Prostate cancer

0.038 (0.024, 0.051)

1963 (1961–1965)

0.001 (−0.001, 0.003)

1998 (1996–1999)

−0.028 (−0.035, −0.022)

  
  1. *Slopes of each ‘segment’ in the curvature.