Time Trends in Lung Cancer Mortality Among Nonsmokers and a Note on Passive Smoking

Lung cancer mortality rates were computed for nonsmokers in the American Cancer Society's prospective study for three 4-year periods from 1960 to 1972 and in the Dorn study of veterans for three 5-year periods from 1954 to 1969. There was no evidence of any trend in these rates by 5-year age gr...

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Published in:JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1981-06, Vol.66 (6), p.1061-1066
Main Author: Garfinkel, L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Environmental Exposure
Female
Humans
Lung Neoplasms - etiology
Lung Neoplasms - mortality
Male
Marriage
Middle Aged
Military Medicine
Prospective Studies
Smoke
Smoking
Time Factors
United States
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Summary:Lung cancer mortality rates were computed for nonsmokers in the American Cancer Society's prospective study for three 4-year periods from 1960 to 1972 and in the Dorn study of veterans for three 5-year periods from 1954 to 1969. There was no evidence of any trend in these rates by 5-year age groups or for the total groups. No time trend was observed in nonsmokers for cancers of other selected sites except for a decrease in cancer of the uterus. Compared to nonsmoking women married to nonsmoking husbands, nonsmokers married to smoking husbands showed very little, if any, increased risk of lung cancer.
ISSN:0027-8874
1460-2105
DOI:10.1093/jnci/66.6.1061