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Table 2 Annual percentage mortality change in West Germany with 95% confidence intervals

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

West

Men

  

Slope 1

Slope 2

Slope 3

Slope 4

Lung

Year

1980–1991

1991–2009

2009–2014

-

 

Estimate

0.0 [−0.2, 0.2]

−2.1 [−2.2, −2.1]

−1.2 [−1.7, −0.6]

-

Prostate

Year

1980–1995

1995–2006

2006–2014

-

 

Estimate

0.7 [0.5, 1.0]

−3.4 [−3.9, −3.0]

−0.6 [−1.2, −0.0]

-

Colon/Rectum

Year

1980–1995

1995–2014

-

-

 

Estimate

−0.2 [−0.4, −0.0]

−2.6 [−2.7, −2.4]

-

-

Women

Lung

Year

1980–1991

1991–2014

-

-

 

Estimate

4.0 [3.7, 4.3]

2.8 [2.7, 2.9]

-

-

Breast

Year

1980–1987

1987–1996

1996–1999

1999–2014

 

Estimate

1.5 [0.9, 2.0]

−0.2 [−0.7, 0.3]

−3.4 [−7.4, 0.8]

−1.6 [−1.8, −1.4]

Colon/Rectum

Year

1980–1993

1993–2014

-

-

 

Estimate

−0.8 [−1.0, −0.6]

−3.1 [−3.2, −3.0]

-

-

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