Lung Cancer and Smoking in Shanghai
| Autor: | William J. Blot, Cheng-Wen Hsu, Wei Zheng, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Yu-Tang Gao |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male China medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms Epidemiology Population Adenocarcinoma Sex Factors Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Carcinoma Humans Registries Carcinoma Small Cell Lung cancer education Aged education.field_of_study Lung business.industry Smoking Respiratory disease Cancer General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Carcinoma Squamous Cell Female Epidemiologic Methods business Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Epidemiology. 17:277-280 |
| ISSN: | 1464-3685 0300-5771 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ije/17.2.277 |
| Popis: | A case-control study involving interviews with 733 male and 672 female incident lung cancer patients and 1495 population-based controls revealed that cigarette smoking is the dominant cause of lung cancer among men in urban Shanghai. All of the principal cell types were affected, with clear trends of rising risk with increasing intensity and duration of smoking. Far fewer women smoked cigarettes, but the overall risk patterns resembled those among males. Among women, however, smoking accounted for only about one-quarter of all lung cancers and less than 10% of lung adenocarcinomas. The findings lay to rest any doubts about the health hazards of smoking Chinese cigarettes, although smoking is not responsible for the high rates of adenocarcinoma reported among Chinese women. |
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