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Hazard Ratio of Smoking on Lung Cancer in Korea According to Histological Type and Gender

Authors
 Young Duk Yun  ;  oung Hwan Back  ;  Haryeom Ghang  ;  Sun Ha Jee  ;  Yeol Kim  ;  Sun Mi Lee  ;  Jonathan M. Samet  ;  Kang Soo Lee 
Citation
 LUNG, Vol.194(2) : 281-289, 2016 
Journal Title
LUNG
ISSN
 0341-2040 
Issue Date
2016
MeSH
Adenocarcinoma/epidemiology ; Adenocarcinoma/pathology ; Adult ; Biopsy ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/epidemiology ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/pathology ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lung Neoplasms/epidemiology* ; Lung Neoplasms/pathology* ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Registries ; Republic of Korea/epidemiology ; Risk Assessment ; Risk Factors ; Sex Distribution ; Sex Factors ; Small Cell Lung Carcinoma/epidemiology ; Small Cell Lung Carcinoma/pathology ; Smoking/adverse effects* ; Smoking/epidemiology* ; Time Factors ; Young Adult
Keywords
Cigarette ; Gender ; Histologic type ; Lung cancer ; Smoking
Abstract
PURPOSE: Using nationwide cancer incidence data, we examined whether the strength of the association of cigarette smoking with lung cancer risk differs according to major histological type and gender, taking account of other risk factors in the Korean population.

METHODS: The study population derived from government employees and teachers aged 20 years and over who participated in a national health examination program in 1998 or 1999. Total study subjects were 1,357,447. After excluding 1556 subjects who were treated with lung cancer during 1998-2000, we restricted our analysis to 1,355,891 cases. We followed up those 1,355,891 subjects who were cancer-free at baseline until December 31, 2010. The incident cancer cases were identified from the Korea Central Cancer Registry, which is a nationwide hospital-based cancer registry system that includes 94 % of the university hospitals and 96 % of the resident training hospitals of the country.

RESULTS: A higher risk for having ever smoked was observed for squamous-cell and small-cell carcinoma in both men and women. Heavy and long-term smokers were at higher risk for these carcinomas. Significant associations with quantity and duration-related factors were observed mainly among men. These findings indicate that smoking is closely related to the risk of squamous-cell and small-cell carcinoma among women as well as men. However, the magnitude of smoking-related lung cancer risk is likely to differ between men and women.

CONCLUSION: The hazard ratios for all types of lung cancer were significantly higher in male current smokers than in male never smokers. In case of women, the hazard ratios for adenocarcinoma were not different between current smokers and never smokers. The hazard ratios we found, however, were lower than those reported in Western countries and in Korea, but consistent with those reported in North-eastern Asian countries.
Full Text
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00408-015-9836-1
DOI
10.1007/s00408-015-9836-1
Appears in Collections:
4. Graduate School of Public Health (보건대학원) > Graduate School of Public Health (보건대학원) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Jee, Sun Ha(지선하) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9519-3068
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/152832
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