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 1 Number of cases and person-years among ethnic Germans, resettlers and the background populations (from age 20)

		Tomsk population		Ethnic Germans		Resettlers		Münster population
		N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Cancer cases
Stomach cancer	Female	1174	43.2	9	31.0	20	37.0	2191	41.4
	Male	1542	56.8	20	69.0	34	63.0	3100	58.6
	2004–2008	1370	50.4	16	55.2	16	29.6	2690	50.8
	2009–2013	1346	49.6	13	44.8	38	70.4	2601	49.2
	Total	2716	100.0	29	100.0	54	100.0	5291	100.0
Colorectal cancer	Female	1986	55.9	19	51.4	69	49.6	10,903	47.9
	Male	1565	44.1	18	48.6	70	50.4	11,841	52.1
	2004–2008	1627	45.8	23	62.2	59	42.4	11,626	51.1
	2009–2013	1924	54.2	14	37.8	80	57.6	11,118	48.9
	Total	3551	100.0	37	100.0	139	100.0	22,744	100.0
Lung cancer	Female	811	19.1	8	13.8	18	14.6	6034	31.4
	Male	3431	80.9	50	86.2	105	85.4	13,194	68.6
	2004–2008	2053	48.4	36	62.1	47	38.2	9211	47.9
	2009–2013	2189	51.6	22	37.9	76	61.8	10,017	52.1
	Total	4242	100.0	58	100.0	123	100.0	19,228	100.0
Breast cancer	Female	3495	100.0	48	100.0	140	100.0	22,777	100.0
	2004–2008	1576	44.9	23	47.9	60	42.9	11,129	48.9
	2009–2013	1919	55.1	25	52.2	80	57.1	11,648	51.1
	Total	3495	100.0	48	100.0	140	100.0	22,777	100.0
Prostate cancer	Male	1915	100.0	24	100.0	94	100.0	21,060	100.0
	2004–2008	693	36.2	9	37.5	31	33.0	10,483	49.8
	2009–2013	1222	63.8	15	62.5	63	67.0	10,577	50.2
	Total	1915	100.0	24	100.0	94	100.0	21,060	100.0
Person-years	Female	4,338,787	54.2	44,387	53.3	114,544	52.2	10,634,958	51.8
	Male	3,666,556	45.8	38,903	46.7	105,060	47.8	9,881,824	48.2
	2004–2008	3,905,135	48.8	45,984	55.2	107,075	48.8	10,211,614	49.8
	2009–2013	4,100,207	51.2	37,305	44.8	112,528	51.2	10,305,168	50.2
	Total	8,006,775	100.0	83,289	100.0	219,604	100.0	20,516,782	100.0

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