Exposure; cancer site† | Total | Men | Women | ||||||
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Observed cases‡ | Excess attributable cases§ | % attributable¶ | Observed cases | Excess attributable cases | % attributable | Observed cases | Excess attributable cases | % attributable | |
Active tobacco smoking | |||||||||
Lung | 1952 | 1 475 | 75.6 | 953 | 739 | 77.5 | 999 | 733 | 73.4 |
Colorectum | 1951 | 223 | 11.4 | 1105 | 141 | 12.7 | 846 | 85 | 10.1 |
Kidney | 482 | 95 | 19.7 | 326 | 69 | 21.1 | 156 | 28 | 18 |
Pancreas | 379 | 73 | 19.3 | 171 | 36 | 20.9 | 208 | 37 | 17.7 |
Oral cavity and pharynx | 373 | 159 | 42.6 | 273 | 123 | 45 | 100 | 39 | 38.7 |
Bladder | 354 | 147 | 41.6 | 280 | 125 | 44.7 | 74 | 28 | 37.8 |
Stomach | 255 | 53 | 20.9 | 158 | 36 | 23 | 97 | 18 | 18.9 |
Liver | 217 | 57 | 26.4 | 148 | 42 | 28.6 | 69 | 17 | 24.1 |
Ovary | 189 | 7 | 3.6 | 189 | 7 | 3.6 | |||
Esophagus | 183 | 83 | 45.4 | 151 | 73 | 48.1 | 32 | 14 | 42.8 |
Myeloid leukemia | 176 | 22 | 12.3 | 99 | 14 | 13.8 | 77 | 8 | 10.8 |
Cervix | 132 | 34 | 25.9 | 132 | 34 | 25.9 | |||
Larynx | 76 | 56 | 74.3 | 64 | 49 | 76.5 | 12 | 8 | 70.8 |
All associated cancers | 6719 | 2485 | 37.0 | 3728 | 1446 | 38.8 | 2991 | 1056 | 35.3 |
All cancers | 15 836 | 2485 | 15.7 | 8155 | 1 446 | 17.7 | 7681 | 1056 | 13.7 |
Passive tobacco exposure | |||||||||
Lung | 195 | 9 | 5.2 | 95 | 5 | 5.9 | 100 | 4 | 4.7 |
All associated cancers** | 195 | 9 | 5.2 | 95 | 5 | 5.9 | 100 | 4 | 4.7 |
All cancers†† | 15 836 | 9 | - | 8155 | 5 | - | 7681 | 4 | - |
*Data on prevalence of tobacco exposure from the Canadian Community Health Survey.
†Cancer incidence data for the year 2012 from the Alberta Cancer Registry.
‡Number of observed cancer cases in Alberta in 2012 at individual cancer sites.
§Number of cancer cases at individual cancer sites that can be attributed to active or passive tobacco exposure.
¶Proportion of cancers at individual cancer sites attributable to active or passive tobacco exposure.
**All associated cancers includes all cancers known to be associated with active or passive tobacco exposure (as listed in the current table).
††All cancers includes all incident cancer cases in Alberta for all ages in 2012.