A cross-national perspective of migration and cancer: incidence of five major cancer types among resettlers from the former Soviet Union in Germany and ethnic Germans in Russia

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

		compared to the Tomsk population		compared to the Münster population
		Ethnic Germans	Resettlers	Tomsk population	Ethnic Germans	Resettlers
		SIR (95% CI)	SIR (95% CI)	SIR (95% CI)	SIR (95% CI)	SIR (95% CI)
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)
Stomach cancer	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)
Colorectal cancer	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)
Lung cancer	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)

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