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Table 1 Annual percentage mortality change in East Germany with 95% confidence intervals

From: Cancer mortality in former East and West Germany: a story of unification?

East

Men

  

Slope 1

Slope 2

Slope 3

Lung

Year

1990–1993

1993–2009

2009–2014

 

Estimate

4.4 [0.7, 8.2]

−2.7 [−3.0, −2.4]

−1.1 [−2.6, 0.5]

Prostate

Year

1990–1993

1993–2014

-

 

Estimate

11.8 [5.0, 19.0]

−1.5 [−1.8, −1.2]

-

Colon/Rectum

Year

1990–1992

1992–1997

1997–2014

 

Estimate

10.9 [3.7–18.5]

−0.9 [−2.9, 1.3]

−2.3 [−2.5, −2.1]

Women

Lung

Year

1990–2014

-

-

 

Estimate

2.2 [2.0–2.4]

-

-

Breast

Year

1990–1992

1992–2007

2007–2014

 

Estimate

4.7 [−3.0, 13.1]

−2.4 [−2.7, −2.0]

0.4 [−0.6, 1.5]

Colon/Rectum

Year

1990–1993

1993–2008

2008–2014

 

Estimate

4.2 [−0.1, 8.7]

−3.8 [−4.1, −3.4]

−2.0 [−3.3, −0.6]

  1. Estimates were computed using a Joinpoint analysis with 2000 permutations