A case-cohort study of lung cancer, ionizing radiation, and tobacco smoking among males at the Hanford Site
Abstract
Results of several epidemiological studies of workers exposed occupationally to low levels of radiation have been reported but have not included data on smoking. The authors conducted a case-cohort study of male workers at the Hanford Site with an objective of investigating the association between lung-cancer risk and occupational radiation exposure with appropriate adjustment for tobacco use. Eighty-six lung-cancer deaths for the period 1965-1980 and a stratified random sample of 445 subcohort members were included in the study. Tobacco-use data were obtained from medical records collected over each subject's period of employment. Data from this study were analyzed using methods that took into account both the case-cohort design and changes over time in the quality of the tobacco-use data collected. Tobacco use was not strongly related to the level of radiation exposure, and adjustment for tobacco use did not greatly modify results of analyses assessing the association between lung-cancer risk and cumulative dose equivalent. With or without adjustment for tobacco use, the estimated risks per unit of cumulative dose equivalent were negative, but the 95% confidence intervals were wide and included values several times those estimated from populations with high levels of irradiation.
- Authors:
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- Hanford Environmental Health Foundation, Richland, WA (USA)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7104943
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Health Physics; (USA)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 58:1; Journal ID: ISSN 0017-9078
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; LUNGS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOINDUCTION; DOSE EQUIVALENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HANFORD RESERVATION; MALES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOBACCO SMOKES; WASHINGTON; AEROSOLS; BODY; COLLOIDS; DISEASES; DISPERSIONS; FEDERAL REGION X; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANS; RESIDUES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SMOKES; SOLS; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; USA; 560151* - Radiation Effects on Animals- Man
Citation Formats
Petersen, G R, Gilbert, E S, Buchanan, J A, and Stevens, R G. A case-cohort study of lung cancer, ionizing radiation, and tobacco smoking among males at the Hanford Site. United States: N. p., 1990.
Web. doi:10.1097/00004032-199001000-00001.
Petersen, G R, Gilbert, E S, Buchanan, J A, & Stevens, R G. A case-cohort study of lung cancer, ionizing radiation, and tobacco smoking among males at the Hanford Site. United States. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-199001000-00001
Petersen, G R, Gilbert, E S, Buchanan, J A, and Stevens, R G. 1990.
"A case-cohort study of lung cancer, ionizing radiation, and tobacco smoking among males at the Hanford Site". United States. https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-199001000-00001.
@article{osti_7104943,
title = {A case-cohort study of lung cancer, ionizing radiation, and tobacco smoking among males at the Hanford Site},
author = {Petersen, G R and Gilbert, E S and Buchanan, J A and Stevens, R G},
abstractNote = {Results of several epidemiological studies of workers exposed occupationally to low levels of radiation have been reported but have not included data on smoking. The authors conducted a case-cohort study of male workers at the Hanford Site with an objective of investigating the association between lung-cancer risk and occupational radiation exposure with appropriate adjustment for tobacco use. Eighty-six lung-cancer deaths for the period 1965-1980 and a stratified random sample of 445 subcohort members were included in the study. Tobacco-use data were obtained from medical records collected over each subject's period of employment. Data from this study were analyzed using methods that took into account both the case-cohort design and changes over time in the quality of the tobacco-use data collected. Tobacco use was not strongly related to the level of radiation exposure, and adjustment for tobacco use did not greatly modify results of analyses assessing the association between lung-cancer risk and cumulative dose equivalent. With or without adjustment for tobacco use, the estimated risks per unit of cumulative dose equivalent were negative, but the 95% confidence intervals were wide and included values several times those estimated from populations with high levels of irradiation.},
doi = {10.1097/00004032-199001000-00001},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7104943},
journal = {Health Physics; (USA)},
issn = {0017-9078},
number = ,
volume = 58:1,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990}
}