Risk Factors for Lung Cancer in Young Adults

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 147, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1028-1037

  Kreuzer, Michaela ^a   Kreienbrock, Lothar ^a   Gerken, Michael ^a   Heinrich, Joachim ^a   Bruske Hohlfeld, Irene ^a   Muller, Klaus Michael ^b   Wichmann, H Erich ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult; Case control studies; Family; Lung neoplasms; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERMANY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT;

EID: 0032101952     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009396     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Bourke W, Milstein D, Giura R, et al. Lung cancer in young adults. Chest 1992;102:1723-9.
2. Jubelirer SJ, Wilson RA. Lung cancer in patients younger than 40 years of age. Cancer 1991;67:1436-8.
3. Putnam JS. Lung carcinoma in young adults. JAMA 1977; 238:35-6.
4. Rocha MP, Fraire AE, Guntupalli KK, et al. Lung cancer in the young. Cancer Detect Prev 1994;18:349-55.
5. Roviaro GC, Varoli F, Zannini P, et al. Lung cancer in the young. Chest 1985;87:456-9.
6. Tsugane S, Watanabe S, Sugimura H, et al. Smoking, occupation, and family history in lung cancer patients under fifty years of age. Jpn J Clin Oncol 1987;17:309-17.
7. Jick H, Porter J, Morrison AS, et al. Lung cancer in young women. Arch Intern Med 1979;139:745-6.
8. Vutuc C, Kunze M. Lungenkrebs bei Mannern unter Vierzig. (In German). MMW Munch Med Wochenschr 1982;124: 101-2.
9. Green LS, Fortoul TI, Ponciano G, et al. Bronchogenic cancer in patients under 40 years old. The experience of a Latin American country. Chest 1993;104:1477-81.
10. Sellers TA, Bailey-Wilson JE, Elston RC, et al. Evidence for mendelian inheritance in the pathogenesis of lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 1990;82:1272-9.
11. Kreienbrock L, Wichmann H-E, Gerken M, et al. The German Radon Project - feasibility of methods and first results. Radiat Prot Dos 1992;45:643-9.
12. Kyriakos M, Webber B. Cancer of the lung in young men. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1974;67:634-48.
13. SAS Institute, Inc. SAS/STAT user's guide. 4th ed. Cary, North Carolina: SAS Institute, Inc. 1989.
14. Icard P, Regnard JF, de Napoli S, et al. Primary lung cancer in young patients: a study of 82 surgically treated patients. Ann Thorac Surg 1992;54:99-103.
15. Larrieu AJ, Jamieson WR, Nelems JM, et al. Carcinoma of the lung in patients under 40 years of age. Am J Surg 1985;149: 602-5.
16. Kennedy A. Lung cancer in young adults. Br J Dis Chest 1972;66:147-54.
17. Gilliland FD, Samet JM. Lung cancer. Cancer Surv 1994; 19-20:175-95.
18. Vincent RG, Pickren JW, Lane WW. The changing histopathology of lung cancer: a review of 1682 cases. Cancer 1977; 39:1647-55.
19. Wu AH, Henderson BE, Thomas D, et al. Secular trends in histologic types of lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 1986;77: 53-6.
20. Dodds L, Davis S, Polissar L. A population-based study of lung cancer incidence by histological type. J Natl Cancer Inst 1986;76:21-9.
21. Charloux A, Quoix E, Wolkove N, et al. The increasing incidence of lung adenocarcinoma: reality or artefact? A review of the epidemiology of lung adenocarcinoma. Int J Epidemiol 1997;26:14-23.
22. Devesa SS, Shaw DL, Blot WJ. Changing patterns of lung cancer incidence by histological type. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 1991;1:29-34.
23. Gazdar AF. The pathology of lung cancer-changing concepts and newer diagnostic techniques. Semin Oncol 1988;15: 215-25.
24. Wu-Williams AH. Lung cancer and cigarette smoking. In: Samet J, ed. Epidemiology of lung cancer. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1995:71-107.
25. Ganz PA, Vernon SE, Preston D, et al. Lung cancer in younger patients. West J Med 1980;133:373-8.
26. Wynder EL, Graham EA. Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma. JAMA 1950;143: 329-36.
27. Passey RD. Some problems of lung cancer. Lancet 1962;2: 107-11.
28. Junge B, Tiefelsdorf M, Arab-Kohlmeier L. Strukturelle Veranderungen des bundesdeutschen Tabakkonsums in drei Jahrzehnten. (In German). Bundesgesundheitsblatt 1989;10: 451-4.
29. Beard CM, Annegers JF, Woolner LB, et al. Bronchogenic carcinoma in Olmsted County. Cancer 1985;55:2026-30.
30. Tokuhata GK, Lilienfeld AM. Familial aggregation of lung cancer in humans. J Natl Cancer Inst 1963;30:289-312.
31. Tokuhata GK. Smoking habits in lung cancer proband families and comparable families. J Natl Cancer Inst 1963;31:1153-71.
32. McDuffie HH. Clustering of cancer in families of patients with primary lung cancer. J Clin Epidemiol 1991;44:69-76.
33. Ooi WL, Elston RC, Chen VW, et al. Increased familial risk for lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 1986;76:217-22.
34. Samet JM, Humble CG, Pathak DR. Personal and family history of respiratory disease and lung cancer risk. Am Rev Respir Dis 1986;134:466-70.
35. Osann KE. Lung cancer in women: the importance of smoking, family history of cancer, and medical history of respiratory disease. Cancer Res 1991;51:4893-7.
36. Horwitz RI, Smaldone LF, Viscoli CM. An ecogenetic hypothesis for lung cancer in women. Arch Intern Med 1988; 148:2609-12.
37. Wu AH, Yu MC, Thomas DC, et al. Personal and family history of lung disease as risk factors for adenocarcinoma of the lung. Cancer Res 1988;48:7279-84.
38. Statistisches Bundesamt, ed. Systematik der Wirtschaftszweige mit Erlauterungen. (In German). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 1979.
39. Bondy ML, Strom SS, Colopy MW, et al. Accuracy of family history of cancer obtained through interviews with relatives of patients with childhood sarcoma. J Clin Epidemiol 1994;47: 89-96.
40. Khoury MJ, Flanders WD. Bias in using family history as a risk factor in case-control studies of disease. Epidemiology 1995;6:511-19.
41. Schwartz AG, Yang P, Swanson GM. Familial risk of lung cancer among nonsmokers and their relatives. Am J Epidemiol 1996;144:554-62.
42. Sellers TA, Chen PL, Potter JD, et al. Segregation analysis of smoking-associated malignancies: evidence for Mendelian inheritance. Am J Med Genet 1994;52:308-14.
43. Bailey-Wilson JE, Sellers TA, Elston RC, et al. Evidence for a major gene effect in early-onset lung cancer. J La State Med Soc 1993;145:157-62.