American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 147, No. 11: 1028-1037
Copyright © 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Risk Factors for Lung Cancer in Young Adults
1Institute of Epidemiology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health Neuherberg, Germany
2Institute of Pathology, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannsheil/Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Bochum, Germany
Reprint requests to Dr. Michaela Kreuzer, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstadter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
Risk factors for early onset of lung cancer are relatively unknown. In a case-control study, carried out in Germany between 1990 and 1996, the effects of smoking and familial aggregation of cancer were compared in 251 young cases and 280 young controls (
45 years) and in 2,009 older cases and 2,039 older controls (55–69 years). The male/female ratio was 2.6/1 in young patients and 5.6/1 in older patients. Adenocarcinomas were more frequent in young men than in older men (41 % vs. 28%). Duration of smoking and amount smoked showed significantly increased odds ratios for lung cancer in both age groups. Lung cancer in a first degree relative was associated with a 2.6-fold (95% confidence interval (Cl) 1.1–6.0) increase in the risk of lung cancer in the young age group, but no elevated risk was seen in the older group (OR = 1.2, 95% Cl 0.9–1.6). Smoking-related cancer in relatives with the age at diagnosis under 46 years was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in the young group (OR = 5.6, 95% Cl 0.7–46.9) but not in the older group (OR = 0.7, 95% Cl 0.3–1.5). Results indicated that lung cancer risk in young and older age groups shows remarkable differences with respect to sex, histologic type, and genetic predisposition. Am J Epidemiol 1998;147:1028–37.
adult; case-control studies; family; lung neoplasms; smoking
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