Indirectly estimated absolute lung cancer mortality rates by smoking status and histological type based on a systematic review

Table 7 Indirect estimates of mortality rates ^a by smoking habit – squamous lung cancer, females

			Never smoked		Former smoker		Current smoker		Ever smoker
Region	Country^b	Study^c	Rate	Weight	Rate	Weight	Rate	Weight	Rate	Weight
Canada		JAIN	2.7	5.9	21.4	18.6	77.3	49.2	49.7	78.7
USA		ANDERS	4.8	5.1					121.8	78.5
		BROWN2	5.3	115.8	103.0	225.7	110.5	304.6	107.2	592.2
		BUFFLE	2.5	3.0	31.1	17.3	32.5	45.2	32.0	93.9
		COMSTO	1.5	0.5	14.5	1.4	107.6	14.4	70.2	17.8
		DORGAN	5.5	24.3					61.2	206.3
		HAENSZ	10.7	51.8	19.5	2.3	33.0	46.2	32.3	51.9
		LOMBA2	5.6	15.3					23.8	124.6
		OSANN	3.3	12.1	44.3	26.4	106.1	114.1	84.6	155.9
		OSANN2	3.7	6.8	11.4	5.5	77.5	47.9	56.9	77.8
		WYNDE3	5.5	5.2					37.5	27.8
		WYNDE4	8.6	12.9					50.2	19.7
		WYNDE6	2.7	12.4	26.9	98.4	79.5	186.9	83.8	169.4
SC America	Cuba	JOLY	4.3	5.8					79.1	31.7
UK		ALDERS	9.8	7.1					59.7	91.9
		DOLL	16.0	17.4					38.5	33.7
Scandinavia	Norway	KREYBE	2.4	2.5					3.2	1.8
Scandinavia	Sweden	NOU	2.1	1.1					14.6	1.6
	Sweden	SVENSS	2.0	4.8	8.0	5.1	37.9	23.3	25.8	31.0
W Europe	Germany	BECHER	5.4	2.1					57.4	33.5
W Europe	France	BENHAM	10.6	36.4					60.0	17.8
	Greece	KATSOU	11.3	13.6	54.3	2.1	72.4	11.8	69.1	14.6
	Austria	VUTUC	11.8	35.0	130.0	24.0	216.4	38.8	179.4	60.0
E Europe	Hungary	ABRAHA	7.5	7.2					40.3	18.3
	Poland	STASZE	0.2	0.3					7.0	0.8
Japan		SOBUE	4.1	14.5	27.1	6.5	42.8	27.1	38.5	35.1
		WAKAI	2.9	3.1	27.7	0.8	80.0	11.3	71.5	12.8
China	HK	CHAN	24.2	16.2					155.7	22.5
	China	GAO	12.8	54.4					74.3	48.3
	K	KOO	41.7	26.3					172.9	31.5
	HK	LAMTH	20.7	23.2					168.0	16.8
	HK	LAMWK	11.0	6.8					115.5	14.5
	HK	LAMWK2	27.6	13.7					179.3	21.1
	China	WUWILL	15.5	59.3					65.0	134.9
	China	XU3	9.9	2.1					168.1	9.9
	China	ZHOU	23.6	37.9					90.1	7.0
Other	S Korea	CHOI	4.3	10.1					29.6	8.2
	Singapore	SEOW	9.9	8.5					172.7	8.1

^a Mortality rates per 100,000 per year for age 70–74 years.
^b Not shown if same as region. HK = Hong Kong.
^c Six character reference codes used in IESLC. See Table two of [3] for associated reference(s).

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