Dose-response meta-analysis of silica and lung cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 925-933

  Lacasse, Yves ^a   Martin, Sylvie ^a   Gagné, Dominique ^a   Lakhal, Lajmi ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lung neoplasm; Meta analysis; Pulmonary fibrosis; Silica; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE; CARCINOGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; META ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SILICOSIS; SMOKING;

CARCINOGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS; SMOKING;

EID: 68849115992     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-009-9296-0     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Y Lacasse S Martin S Simard M Desmeules 2005 Meta-analysis of silicosis and lung cancer Scand J Work Environ Health 31 450 458 16425586 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD28XhtVyrsLs%3D
2. Koskela RS, Klockars M, Jarvinen E, Rossi A, Kolari PJ (1990) Cancer mortality of granite workers 1940-1985. IARC Sci Publ (97):43-53
3. JM Hughes H Weill 1991 Asbestosis as a precursor of asbestos related lung cancer: results of a prospective mortality study Br J Ind Med 48 229 233 2025587 1:STN:280:DyaK3M3itlSjsA%3D%3D
4. R Hubbard A Venn S Lewis J Britton 2000 Lung cancer and cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis. A population-based cohort study Am J Respir Crit Care Med 161 5 8 10619790 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3c%2FosleitA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 30055895)
5. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (1997) IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans-silica, some silicates, coal dust and para-aramid fibrils. World Health Organization
6. H Weill JC McDonald 1996 Exposure to crystalline silica and risk of lung cancer: the epidemiological evidence Thorax 51 97 102 10.1136/thx.51.1.97 8658382 10.1136/thx.51.1.97 1:STN:280:DyaK283msVCitQ%3D%3D
7. DF Stroup JA Berlin SC Morton, et al. 2000 Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group JAMA 283 2008 2012 10.1001/jama.283.15.2008 10789670 10.1001/jama.283.15.2008 1:STN:280: DC%2BD3c3kvVGgsA%3D%3D
8. JF Gehanno C Paris B Thirion JF Caillard 1998 Assessment of bibliographic databases performance in information retrieval for occupational and environmental toxicology Occup Environ Med 55 562 566 10.1136/oem.55.8.562 9849544 10.1136/oem.55.8.562 1:CAS:528:DyaK1cXlt1WgsLc%3D
9. AB Hill 1965 The environment and disease: association or causation? Proc R Soc Med 58 295 300 14283879 1:STN:280:DyaF2M%2FovVCmsw%3D%3D
10. P Lagiou HO Adami D Trichopoulos 2005 Causality in cancer epidemiology Eur J Epidemiol 20 565 574 10.1007/s10654-005-7968-y 16119428 10.1007/s10654-005-7968-y (Pubitemid 41130750)
11. K Steenland A Mannetje P Boffetta, et al. 2001 Pooled exposure-response analyses and risk assessment for lung cancer in 10 cohorts of silica-exposed workers: An IARC multicentre study Cancer Causes Control 12 773 784 10.1023/A:1012214102061 11714104 10.1023/A:1012214102061 1:STN:280: DC%2BD3MnmvVWqug%3D%3D (Pubitemid 33010614)
12. K Steenland D Loomis C Shy N Simonsen 1996 Review of occupational lung carcinogens Am J Ind Med 29 474 490 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199605)29:5<474:: AID-AJIM6>3.0.CO;2-M 8732921 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199605)29:5<474::AID- AJIM6>3.0.CO;2-M 1:CAS:528:DyaK28Xjt12qur4%3D (Pubitemid 26135820)
13. R Puntoni DF Goldsmith F Valerio, et al. 1988 A cohort study of workers employed in a refractory brick plant Tumori 74 27 33 2832986 1:STN:280:DyaL1c7nvFSktQ%3D%3D
14. MS Kramer AR Feinstein 1981 Clinical biostatistics. LIV. The biostatistics of concordance Clin Pharmacol Ther 29 111 123 7460469 1:STN:280:DyaL3M7ht12nug%3D%3D
15. Rothman KJ, Greenland S (1998) Modern epidemiology. Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia
16. D Il'yasova I Hertz-Picciotto U Peters JA Berlin C Poole 2005 Choice of exposure scores for categorical regression in meta-analysis: a case study of a common problem Cancer Causes Control 16 383 388 10.1007/s10552-004-5025-x 15953980 10.1007/s10552-004-5025-x (Pubitemid 40897830)
17. V Bagnardi A Zambon P Quatto G Corrao 2004 Flexible meta-regression functions for modeling aggregate dose-response data, with an application to alcohol and mortality Am J Epidemiol 159 1077 1086 10.1093/aje/kwh142 15155292 10.1093/aje/kwh142
18. R DerSimonian N Laird 1986 Meta-analysis in clinical trials Control Clin Trials 7 177 188 10.1016/0197-2456(86)90046-2 3802833 10.1016/0197-2456(86) 90046-2 1:STN:280:DyaL2s7gsVamtA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 17189972)
19. DO Stram 1996 Meta-analysis of published data using a linear mixed-effects model Biometrics 52 536 544 10.2307/2532893 8672702 10.2307/2532893 1:STN:280:DyaK283lt1yltA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 26187059)
20. S Bonovas K Filioussi N Tsavaris NM Sitaras 2006 Statins and cancer risk: a literature-based meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis of 35 randomized controlled trials J Clin Oncol 24 4808 4817 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.3560 17001070 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.3560 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD28Xht1eiu73M (Pubitemid 46655612)
21. E Hnizdo J Murray S Klempman 1997 Lung cancer in relation to exposure to silica dust, silicosis and uranium production in South African gold miners Thorax 52 271 275 9093345 1:STN:280:DyaK2s3kslaitQ%3D%3D (Pubitemid 27128179)
22. H Checkoway JM Hughes H Weill NS Seixas PA Demers 1999 Crystalline silica exposure, radiological silicosis, and lung cancer mortality in diatomaceous earth industry workers Thorax 54 56 59 10343633 1:STN:280:DyaK1M3nsFWjsw%3D%3D
23. W Chen J Chen 2002 Nested case-control study of lung cancer in four Chinese tin mines Occup Environ Med 59 113 118 10.1136/oem.59.2.113 11850554 10.1136/oem.59.2.113 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD38XitVyqsb8%3D (Pubitemid 34146242)
24. GM Calvert FL Rice JM Boiano JW Sheehy WT Sanderson 2003 Occupational silica exposure and risk of various diseases: an analysis using death certificates from 27 states of the United States Occup Environ Med 60 122 129 10.1136/oem.60.2.122 12554840 10.1136/oem.60.2.122 1:STN:280: DC%2BD3s%2FlslWktw%3D%3D (Pubitemid 36157372)
25. T Kauppinen P Heikkila T Partanen, et al. 2003 Mortality and cancer incidence of workers in Finnish road paving companies Am J Ind Med 43 49 57 10.1002/ajim.10161 12494421 10.1002/ajim.10161 (Pubitemid 36068834)
26. G Menvielle D Luce J Fevotte, et al. 2003 Occupational exposures and lung cancer in New Caledonia Occup Environ Med 60 584 589 10.1136/oem.60.8.584 12883019 10.1136/oem.60.8.584 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXntVyhsbw%3D (Pubitemid 36976404)
27. MD Attfield J Costello 2004 Quantitative exposure-response for silica dust and lung cancer in Vermont granite workers Am J Ind Med 45 129 138 10.1002/ajim.10348 14748044 10.1002/ajim.10348 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2cXitVKrt70%3D (Pubitemid 38174691)
28. G Smailyte J Kurtinaitis A Andersen 2004 Mortality and cancer incidence among Lithuanian cement producing workers Occup Environ Med 61 529 534 10.1136/oem.2003.009936 15150393 10.1136/oem.2003.009936 1:STN:280: DC%2BD2c3ltF2mtQ%3D%3D (Pubitemid 38725624)
29. N L'Abbate C Di Pierri A Nuzzaco F Caputo M Carino 2005 Radiological and functional progression in silicosis Med Lav 96 212 221 16273839
30. A Baccarelli O Khmelnitskii M Tretiakova, et al. 2006 Risk of lung cancer from exposure to dusts and fibers in Leningrad Province, Russia Am J Ind Med 49 460 467 10.1002/ajim.20316 16586409 10.1002/ajim.20316 1:CAS:528: DC%2BD28Xls1CrtLg%3D (Pubitemid 43800970)
31. W Chen J Yang J Chen J Bruch 2006 Exposures to silica mixed dust and cohort mortality study in tin mines: exposure-response analysis and risk assessment of lung cancer Am J Ind Med 49 67 76 10.1002/ajim.20248 16362950 10.1002/ajim.20248 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD28XhslOhsro%3D (Pubitemid 43221458)
32. A Zeka A Mannetje D Zaridze, et al. 2006 Lung cancer and occupation in nonsmokers: a multicenter case-control study in Europe Epidemiology 17 615 623 10.1097/01.ede.0000239582.92495.b5 17068414 10.1097/01.ede.0000239582.92495.b5 (Pubitemid 44655597)
33. ITS Yu LA Tse CC Leung TW Wong CM Tam ACK Chan 2007 Lung cancer mortality among silicotic workers in Hong Kong-no evidence for a link Ann Oncol 18 1056 1063 10.1093/annonc/mdm089 17586750 10.1093/annonc/mdm089 1:STN:280: DC%2BD2srlslKmtQ%3D%3D (Pubitemid 47050498)
34. H Checkoway NJ Heyer NS Seixas, et al. 1997 Dose-response associations of silica with nonmalignant respiratory disease and lung cancer mortality in the diatomaceous earth industry Am J Epidemiol 145 680 688 9125994 1:STN:280:DyaK2s3ntFSnsQ%3D%3D
35. K Steenland W Sanderson 2001 Lung cancer among industrial sand workers exposed to crystalline silica Am J Epidemiol 153 695 703 10.1093/aje/153.7.695 11282798 10.1093/aje/153.7.695 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3M3ivVKrsA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 32250978)
36. TP Brown L Rushton 2005 Mortality in the UK industrial silica sand industry: 2. A retrospective cohort study Occup Environ Med 62 446 452 10.1136/oem.2004.017731 15961620 10.1136/oem.2004.017731 1:STN:280: DC%2BD2MzhtlOjsQ%3D%3D (Pubitemid 40904838)
37. E Pukkala J Guo P Kyyronen ML Lindbohm M Sallmen T Kauppinen 2005 National job-exposure matrix in analyses of census-based estimates of occupational cancer risk Scand J Work Environ Health 31 97 107 15864903 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2MXktlKquro%3D
38. K Ulm B Waschulzik H Ehnes, et al. 1999 Silica dust and lung cancer in the German stone, quarrying, and ceramics industries: results of a case-control study Thorax 54 347 351 10092697 1:STN:280:DyaK1MzgvFWisg%3D%3D
39. I Bruske-Hohlfeld M Mohner H Pohlabeln, et al. 2000 Occupational lung cancer risk for men in Germany: results from a pooled case-control study Am J Epidemiol 151 384 395 10695597 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3c7lvVWntg%3D%3D (Pubitemid 30463616)
40. P Cocco CH Rice JQ Chen MA McCawley JK McLaughlin M Dosemeci 2001 Lung cancer risk, silica exposure, and silicosis in Chinese mines and pottery factories: the modifying role of other workplace lung carcinogens Am J Ind Med 40 674 682 10.1002/ajim.10022 11757044 10.1002/ajim.10022 1:CAS:528: DC%2BD3MXpt12luro%3D (Pubitemid 33123942)
41. JM Hughes H Weill RJ Rando R Shi AD McDonald JC McDonald 2001 Cohort mortality study of North American industrial sand workers. II. Case-referent analysis of lung cancer and silicosis deaths Ann Occup Hyg 45 201 207 11295143 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3MXisVSquro%3D (Pubitemid 32273579)
42. HB Westberg T Bellander 2003 Epidemiological adaptation of quartz exposure modeling in Swedish aluminum foundries: nested case-control study on lung cancer Appl Occup Environ Hyg 18 1006 1013 10.1080/10473220390244676 14612297 10.1080/10473220390244676 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD3sXptV2js7g%3D (Pubitemid 38031120)
43. JC McDonald AD McDonald JM Hughes RJ Rando H Weill 2005 Mortality from lung and kidney disease in a cohort of North American industrial sand workers: an update Ann Occup Hyg 49 367 373 10.1093/annhyg/mei001 15728107 10.1093/annhyg/mei001 (Pubitemid 41399415)
44. A Cassidy A Mannetje M Van Tongeren, et al. 2007 Occupational exposure to crystalline silica and risk of lung cancer: a multicenter case-control study in Europe Epidemiology 18 36 43 10.1097/01.ede.0000248515.28903.3c 17149143 10.1097/01.ede.0000248515.28903.3c (Pubitemid 46005907)
45. W Chen F Bochmann Y Sun 2007 Effects of work related confounders on the association between silica exposure and lung cancer: a nested case-control study among Chinese miners and pottery workers Int Arch Occup Environ Health 80 320 326 10.1007/s00420-006-0137-0 16897095 10.1007/s00420-006-0137-0 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD2sXnvVShsg%3D%3D (Pubitemid 46165365)
46. M Blettner W Sauerbrei B Schlehofer T Scheuchenpflug C Friedenreich 1999 Traditional reviews, meta-analyses and pooled analyses in epidemiology Int J Epidemiol 28 1 9 10.1093/ije/28.1.1 10195657 10.1093/ije/28.1.1 1:STN:280:DyaK1M3htVSgsA%3D%3D (Pubitemid 29086203)
47. A Blair J Burg J Foran, et al. 1995 Guidelines for application of meta-analysis in environmental epidemiology. ISLI Risk Science Institute Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 22 189 197 10.1006/rtph.1995.1084 8577954 10.1006/rtph.1995. 1084 1:STN:280:DyaK287jtFOgtg%3D%3D
48. JA Berlin 1995 Invited commentary: benefits of heterogeneity in meta-analysis of data from epidemiologic studies Am J Epidemiol 142 383 387 7625402 1:STN:280:DyaK2MzltFehtQ%3D%3D
49. GA Colditz E Burdick F Mosteller 1995 Heterogeneity in meta-analysis of data from epidemiologic studies: a commentary Am J Epidemiol 142 371 382 7625401 1:STN:280:DyaK2MzltFehtA%3D%3D
50. AM Jurek G Maldonado S Greenland TR Church 2006 Exposure-measurement error is frequently ignored when interpreting epidemiologic study results Eur J Epidemiol 21 871 876 10.1007/s10654-006-9083-0 17186399 10.1007/s10654-006-9083- 0 (Pubitemid 46197153)
51. D Dahmann D Taeger M Kappler, et al. 2007 Assessment of exposure in epidemiological studies: the example of silica dust J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 18 452 461 10.1038/sj.jes.7500636 18059424 10.1038/sj.jes.7500636
52. W Wang 2004 Nonparametric estimation of the Sojourn time distributions for a multi-path model J R Stat Soc Ser B 65 921 936 10.1046/j.1369-7412.2003. 00423.x
53. I Gordon P Boffetta PA Demers 1998 A case study comparing a meta-analysis and a pooled analysis of studies of sinonasal cancer among wood workers Epidemiology 9 518 524 10.1097/00001648-199809000-00008 9730030 10.1097/00001648-199809000-00008 1:STN:280:DyaK1czpslOltQ%3D%3D
54. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2002) NIOSH hazard review: HEALTH effects of occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/02-129pd.html