Table 3 Standardised incidence rate ratios of ethnic Germans and resettlers compared to the background populations (from age 20)

Cancer cases

Sex

Stomach cancer

Female

0.57 (0.30–1.10)

0.70 (0.45–1.08)

1.80 (1.70–1.91)

1.01 (0.52–1.94)

1.23 (0.80–1.91)

Male

0.88 (0.57–1.37)

0.78 (0.55–1.09)

2.20 (2.09–2.31)

1.88 (1.21–2.92)

1.64 (1.19–2.32)

Colorectal cancer

Female

0.72 (0.46–1.13)

1.45 (1.14–1.83)

0.62 (0.59–0.65)

0.43 (0.28–0.68)

0.88 (0.69–1.11)

Male

0.78 (0.49–1.24)

1.56 (1.23–1.97)

0.60 (0.57–0.63)

0.46 (0.29–0.72)

0.92 (0.73–1.16)

Lung cancer

Female

0.73 (0.37–1.46)

0.91 (0.57–1.44)

0.41 (0.38–0.44)

0.31 (0.15–0.61)

0.38 (0.24–0.61)

Male

1.00 (0.76–1.32)

1.10 (0.91–1.33)

1.13 (1.09–1.16)

1.10 (0.83–1.45)

1.23 (1.02–1.49)

Breast cancer

Female

1.12 (0.85–1.49)

1.65 (1.40–1.95)

0.45 (0.43–0.46)

0.50 (0.37–0.66)

0.74 (0.63–0.87)

Prostate cancer

Male

0.83 (0.56–1.24)

1.64 (1.34–2.01)

0.42 (0.40–0.44)

0.35 (0.24–0.52)

0.75 (0.61–0.91)