Table 1B Mortality of haematological malignancies; demographic characteristics and outcomes of the study population of the two Southern Urals cohorts – the Techa River in utero exposed cohort (TRCIU) and the Mayak female worker offspring cohort (MWOC) – exposed to ionising radiation in utero
Combined cohort | TRCIU | MWOC | ||||
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N (%) | PYAR | N (%) | PYAR | N (%) | PYAR | |
Total | 19 956 (100) | 706 269 | 11 490 (100) | 427 979 | 8466 (100) | 278 290 |
Demographic characteristics | ||||||
Sex | ||||||
Male | 10 182 (51) | 354 863 | 5821 (51) | 211 862 | 4361 (52) | 143 001 |
Female | 9774 (49) | 351 406 | 5669 (49) | 216 117 | 4105 (48) | 135 289 |
Year of birth | ||||||
1948–54 | 7639 (38) | 262 178 | 4493 (39) | 167 026 | 3146 (37) | 95 152 |
1955–59 | 7273 (36) | 264 840 | 5263 (46) | 195 774 | 2010 (24) | 69 066 |
1960–69 | 3768 (19) | 140 469 | 1734 (15) | 65 179 | 2034 (24) | 75 290 |
1970–79 | 921 (5) | 30 242 | 0 (0) | 0 | 921 (11) | 30 242 |
After 1979 | 355 (2) | 8 540 | 0 (0) | 0 | 355 (4) | 8 540 |
Outcomes | ||||||
Alive on 12/31/2009 | 9927 (50) | 5769 (50) | 4158 (49) | |||
Lost to follow-up | ||||||
Emigrated | 5187 (26) | 2235 (19) | 2952 (35) | |||
Other reason | 1463 (7) | 1127 (10) | 336 (4) | |||
Death | ||||||
From neoplasms | 248 (1) | 145 (1) | 103 (1) | |||
Of other causes | 3131 (16) | 2214 (19) | 917 (11) |