Lung, Laryngeal and Other Respiratory Cancer Incidence among Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors: An Updated Analysis from 1958 through 2009
Abstract
The Life Span Study (LSS) of Japanese atomic bomb survivors is comprised of a large, population-based cohort offering one of the best opportunities to study the relationship between exposure to radiation and incidence of respiratory cancers. Risks of lung, laryngeal and other cancers of the respiratory system were evaluated among 105,444 LSS subjects followed from 1958 to 2009. During this period, we identified 2,446 lung, 180 laryngeal and 115 other respiratory (trachea, mediastinum and other ill-defined sites) first primary incident cancer cases. Ten additional years of follow-up, improved radiation dose estimates, revised smoking data, and updated migration information were then used to investigate the joint effects of radiation and smoking using Poisson regression methods. For nonsmokers, the sexaveraged excess relative risk per Gy (ERR/Gy) for lung cancer (at age 70 after radiation exposure at age 30) was estimated as 0.81 (95% CI: 0.51, 1.18) with a female-to-male ratio of 2.83. There was no evidence of curvature in the radiation dose-response relationship overall or by sex. Lung cancer risks increased with pack-years of smoking and decreased with time since quitting smoking at any level of radiation exposure. Similar to the previously reported study, which followed cohort members through 1999, the ERR/Gymore »
- Authors:
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- National Cancer Inst. (NCI), Bethesda, MD (United States). Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
- Hirosoft International, Eureka, CA (United States)
- Oregon Health and Sciences Univ., Portland, OR (United States). Division of Biostatistics and Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
- Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Academy of Sciences (NAS); Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW); National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1425825
- Grant/Contract Number:
- HS0000031; HHSN261201400009C
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Radiation Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 187; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0033-7587
- Publisher:
- Radiation Research Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
Citation Formats
Cahoon, Elizabeth K., Preston, Dale L., Pierce, Donald A., Grant, Eric, Brenner, Alina V., Mabuchi, Kiyohiko, Utada, Mai, and Ozasa, Kotaro. Lung, Laryngeal and Other Respiratory Cancer Incidence among Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors: An Updated Analysis from 1958 through 2009. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1667/RR14583.1.
Cahoon, Elizabeth K., Preston, Dale L., Pierce, Donald A., Grant, Eric, Brenner, Alina V., Mabuchi, Kiyohiko, Utada, Mai, & Ozasa, Kotaro. Lung, Laryngeal and Other Respiratory Cancer Incidence among Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors: An Updated Analysis from 1958 through 2009. United States. https://doi.org/10.1667/RR14583.1
Cahoon, Elizabeth K., Preston, Dale L., Pierce, Donald A., Grant, Eric, Brenner, Alina V., Mabuchi, Kiyohiko, Utada, Mai, and Ozasa, Kotaro. Tue .
"Lung, Laryngeal and Other Respiratory Cancer Incidence among Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors: An Updated Analysis from 1958 through 2009". United States. https://doi.org/10.1667/RR14583.1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1425825.
@article{osti_1425825,
title = {Lung, Laryngeal and Other Respiratory Cancer Incidence among Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors: An Updated Analysis from 1958 through 2009},
author = {Cahoon, Elizabeth K. and Preston, Dale L. and Pierce, Donald A. and Grant, Eric and Brenner, Alina V. and Mabuchi, Kiyohiko and Utada, Mai and Ozasa, Kotaro},
abstractNote = {The Life Span Study (LSS) of Japanese atomic bomb survivors is comprised of a large, population-based cohort offering one of the best opportunities to study the relationship between exposure to radiation and incidence of respiratory cancers. Risks of lung, laryngeal and other cancers of the respiratory system were evaluated among 105,444 LSS subjects followed from 1958 to 2009. During this period, we identified 2,446 lung, 180 laryngeal and 115 other respiratory (trachea, mediastinum and other ill-defined sites) first primary incident cancer cases. Ten additional years of follow-up, improved radiation dose estimates, revised smoking data, and updated migration information were then used to investigate the joint effects of radiation and smoking using Poisson regression methods. For nonsmokers, the sexaveraged excess relative risk per Gy (ERR/Gy) for lung cancer (at age 70 after radiation exposure at age 30) was estimated as 0.81 (95% CI: 0.51, 1.18) with a female-to-male ratio of 2.83. There was no evidence of curvature in the radiation dose-response relationship overall or by sex. Lung cancer risks increased with pack-years of smoking and decreased with time since quitting smoking at any level of radiation exposure. Similar to the previously reported study, which followed cohort members through 1999, the ERR/Gy for lung cancer was significantly higher for low-to-moderate smokers than for heavy smokers, with little evidence of any radiation-associated excess risk in heavy smokers. Of 2,446 lung cancer cases, 113 (5%) could be attributed to radiation exposure. Of the 1,165 lung cancer cases occurring among smokers, 886 (76%) could be attributed to smoking. While there was little evidence of a radiation effect for laryngeal cancer, a nonsignificantly elevated risk of other respiratory cancers was observed. However, significant smoking effects were observed for both laryngeal (ERR per 50 pack-years ¼ 23.57; 95% CI: 8.44, 71.05) and other respiratory cancers (ERR per 50 pack-years¼1.21; 95% CI: 0.10, 3.25)},
doi = {10.1667/RR14583.1},
journal = {Radiation Research},
number = 5,
volume = 187,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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