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Table 3: Relative survival: Relative Excess Risk of death (RER) and 95% confidence intervals for malignant melanoma for selected variables.

Variable RER*, 95% CI Adjusted⋀ RER*, 95% CI Sex  Female 1.000 1.000  Male 1.829 1.584–2.110 1.734 1.523–1.973 Age (years)  0–44 1.000 1.000  45–59 1.531 1.263–1.856 1.480 1.223–1.791  60–74 2.413 2.003–2.908 2.339 1.945–2.813  75+ 4.006 3.237–4.957 4.101 3.317–5.069 Mean provincial Income 2002 0.990 0.985–0.994 0.991 0.987–0.994 Mammography 2000 (%) 0.989 0.983–0.994 Blond hair 1859–63 (%) 0.994 0.981–1.007 Latitude (increasing degrees) 0.931 0.895–0.969

*Estimated relative excess risk of death by Generalized Liner Model on Relative Survival. ⋀Generalized Liner Model on Relative Survival including annul follow-up time (omitted in the table), sex, age, and mean provincial 2002 income.