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## Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

### Description

England and Wales mortality rates from lung cancer, nasal cancer, and all causes, 1936–1980. The 1936 rates are repeated as 1931 rates in order to accommodate follow-up for the `nickel` study.

### Usage

    ewrates

### Format

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:

`year`

  calendar period, 1931: 1931–35, 1936: 1936–40, ....

`age`

  age class, 10: 10–14, 15:15–19, ....

`lung`

  lung cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years

`nasal`

  nasal cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years

`other`

  all cause mortality rate per 1 million person-years

### Details

Taken from the “Epi” package by Bendix Carstensen et al.

### Source

N.E. Breslow, and N. Day (1987). Statistical Methods in Cancer Research. Volume II: The Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies, Appendix IX. IARC Scientific Publications, Lyon.

[Package ISwR version 2.0-7 Index]