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Residential radon and lung cancer characteristics in never smokers
María Torres-Durán1, Alberto Ruano-Ravina2,3, Isaura Parente-Lamelas4
1a Service of Neumology, University Hospital Complex of Vigo , Spain.
Purpose:
The aim of this study is to assess if there is a relationship between residential radon and lung cancer histological types and patients' age at diagnosis.
Materials And Methods:
We conducted a multicenter hospital-based case-control study with eight participating hospitals. We included 216 never-smoking cases with primary lung cancer and 329 never-smoking controls. Controls were frequency matched with cases on age and sex distribution. Of them, 198 cases (91.7%) and 275 controls (83.5%) had residential radon measurements.
Results:
Lung cancer risk reached statistical significance only for adenocarcinoma (Odds ratio [OR] 2.19; 95% Confidence interval [CI] 1.44-3.33), for other histologies the results were marginally significant. Residential radon level was higher for patients diagnosed before 50 and 60 years old than for older lung cancer cases.
Conclusions:
Residential radon in never smokers seems to be a risk factor for all lung cancer histologies. Individuals diagnosed at a younger age have a higher residential radon concentration, suggesting an accumulative effect on lung cancer appearance.
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