A Survey of the Czechoslovak Follow-up of Lung Cancer Mortality in Uranium Miners
| Autor: | Albrecht M. Kellerer, Josef Sevc, V. Placek, Emil Kunz, D. Chmelevsky, D. Barclay, Ladislav Tomasek |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Male Lung Neoplasms Neoplasms Radiation-Induced Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis chemistry.chemical_element Radon Mining Cohort Studies Occupational Exposure medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Risk factor Lung cancer Aged business.industry Mortality rate Confounding Absolute risk reduction Dose-Response Relationship Radiation Middle Aged medicine.disease Czechoslovakia chemistry Relative risk Cohort Uranium Nuclear medicine business Follow-Up Studies Demography |
| Zdroj: | Health Physics. 64:355-369 |
| ISSN: | 0017-9078 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00004032-199304000-00002 |
| Popis: | The major Czechoslovak cohort of uranium miners (S-cohort) is surveyed in terms of diagrams illustrating dependences on calendar year, age, and exposure to radon and radon progeny. An analysis of the dose dependence of lung cancer mortality is performed by nonparametric and, subsequently, by parametric methods. In the first step, two-dimensional isotonic regression is employed to derive the lung cancer mortality rate and the relative excess risk as functions of age attained and of lagged cumulated exposure. In a second step, analytical fits in terms of relative risk models are derived. The treatment is largely analogous to the methods applied by the BEIR IV Committee to other major cohorts of uranium miners. There is a marked dependence of the excess risk on age attained and on time since exposure. A specific characteristic of the Czechoslovak data is the nonlinearity of the dependence of the lung cancer excess risk on the cumulated exposure; exposures on the order of 100 working level months or less appear to be more effective per working level month than larger exposures but, in the absence of an internal control group, this cannot be excluded to be due to confounders such as smoking or environmental exposures. A further notable observation is the association of larger excess risks with longer protraction of the exposures. |
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