Differential incidence trends of colon and rectal cancers in Hong Kong: an age-period-cohort analysis

Cancer Communications

Table 2 Statistical parameters for overall and age-specific annual percent changes in age-period-cohort models

Sex	Cancer type	Net drift (% per year; 95% CI)	P value
Sex	Cancer type	Net drift (% per year; 95% CI)	All local drifts = net drift	All cohort deviations = 0	All period deviations = 0
Male	Colon	− 0.39 (− 0.66, − 0.12)	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.048
Male	Rectal	0.99 (0.57, 1.40)	0.562	0.636	0.018
Female	Colon	− 1.04 (− 1.46, − 0.61)	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Female	Rectal	− 0.15 (− 0.54, 0.25)	0.098	0.107	0.210

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