Passive smoking and lung cancer: a cumulative meta‐analysis

Taylor, Richard; Cumming, Robert; Woodward, Alistair; Black, Megan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-842x.2001.tb00564.x

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“…In fact, in our final model, both types of exposures did increase the risk of lung cancer, but their effects were not statistically significant in our regression models. Nonsmoking women exposed to ETS at home and/or at work had an OR of f1.35 (P = 0.67) in the final model, and this level of risk is compatible with results from previous epidemiologic studies (37)(38)(39). The effect of ETS on lung cancer risk might become statistically significant if we had a larger sample size.…”

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Dose-Response Relationship between Cooking Fumes Exposures and Lung Cancer among Chinese Nonsmoking Women

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The high incidence of lung cancer among Chinese females, despite a low smoking prevalence, remains poorly explained. Cooking fume exposure during frying could be an important risk factor. We carried out a population-based case-control study in Hong Kong. Cases were Chinese female nonsmokers with newly diagnosed primary lung cancer. Controls were female nonsmokers randomly sampled from the community, frequency matched by age groups. Face-to-face interviews were conducted using a standardized questionnaire. The ''total cooking dish-years,'' categorized by increments of 50, was used as a surrogate of cooking fumes exposure. Multiple unconditional logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratios (OR) for different levels of exposure after adjusting for various potential confounding factors. We interviewed 200 cases and 285 controls. The ORs of lung cancer across increasing levels of cooking dish-years were 1, 1.17, 1.92, 2.26, and 6.15. After adjusting for age and other potential confounding factors, the increasing trend of ORs with increasing exposure categories became clearer, being 1, 1.31, 4.12, 4.68, and 34. The OR of lung cancer was highest for deep-frying (2.56 per 10 dish-years) followed by that of frying (1.47), and stir-frying had the lowest OR (1.12) among the three methods. Cumulative exposure to cooking by means of any form of frying could increase the risk of lung cancer in Hong Kong nonsmoking women. Practical means to reduce exposures to cooking fumes should be given top priority in future research. (Cancer Res 2006; 66(9): 4961-7)

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Dose-Response Relationship between Cooking Fumes Exposures and Lung Cancer among Chinese Nonsmoking Women

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“…Use of the NRPB 'living room' equilibrium factors for average smoking (0.50) and active smoking (0.65), together with 0.40 for the bedroom (assuming that the upstairs radon level is 67% of the downstairs value) (Kendall et al, 1994) results in increased risk estimates for all occupants (smokers and non-smokers) of 20% for average smoking and a further 15% for active smoking. This is consistent with the excess lung-cancer risk of 25% attributed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) by Hackshaw et al (1997) from an analysis of 37 published studies and with the broadly similar finding from a meta-analysis of 43 primary studies of 21% excess risk to never-smoking women exposed to ETS (Taylor et al, 2001).…”

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Analysis of the individual health benefits accruing from a domestic radon remediation programme

Denman

Phillips

Tornberg

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Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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“…Taylor et al [21] analyzed 43 primary studies from 1981 to the end of 1999. The abundance of evidence clearly indicated that non-smokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) are at increased risk for lung cancer.…”

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Application of meta-analysis in evidence-based oncology

Lin

Wang

2008

Chin. J. Clin. Oncol.

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and independent organization, dedicated to providing up-to-date evidencebased information about the effects of healthcare in the form of systematic reviews. Meta-analysis is a statistical tool to prepare the systematic reviews.breast, lung, colon, liver, stomach and cervix uteri were reviewed in three KEYWORDS: evidence-based medicine, cancer, systematic reviews; meta-analysis.Evidence-based medicine is a useful research method and brand new theory in medical science, which has developed since the 1970's. At the present time, cancer is one of most harmful diseases impacting our health and life, so evidence-based oncology should be widely practiced by medical professionals who work on cancer prevention or in clinical settings. Research on evidence-based to provide the best medical practice. In research involving evidence-based medicine, meta-analysis is frequently used as a basic statistical tool.

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Passive smoking and lung cancer: a cumulative meta‐analysis

Abstract: Objective: To review the epidemiological evidence for the association between passive smoking and lung cancer.

Cited by 70 publications

References 95 publications

Dose-Response Relationship between Cooking Fumes Exposures and Lung Cancer among Chinese Nonsmoking Women

Dose-Response Relationship between Cooking Fumes Exposures and Lung Cancer among Chinese Nonsmoking Women

Analysis of the individual health benefits accruing from a domestic radon remediation programme

Application of meta-analysis in evidence-based oncology

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