Increased Standardised Incidence Ratio of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Taiwanese Asbestos Workers: A 29-Year Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 5

Characteristics of 17 male cases of MPM employed in asbestos-related factories.

Characteristics	Percentage (%)
Histology (ICD-O)
Mesothelioma, malignant, NOS (9050/3)	64.7
Fibrous mesothelioma, malignant (9051/3)	11.8
Epithelioid mesothelioma, malignant (9052/3)	23.5
Period of cancer diagnosis
1980–1999	11.8
2000–2009	88.2
Other characteristics	Median (range), years
Age at first employment	25 (15–48)
Age at cancer diagnosis	63 (38–74)
Latency (time since first employment to cancer diagnosis)	33.2 (22.7–56.4)
Duration of employment	1.7 (0.1–30)

Coded by International Classification of Diseases for Oncology- (ICD-O-) 3rd ed., published by WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data, 2000, reprinted in 2005.