Lung Cancer Among Firefighters: Smoking-Adjusted Risk Estimates in a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies

Carolina Bigert¹, Per Gustavsson, Kurt Straif+42

• ¹The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (Drs Bigert, Gustavsson); International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (Drs Straif, Schüz, Olsson); Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance - Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany (Drs Taeger, Pesch, Kendzia, Brüning); Inserm, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer Team (Drs Stücker, Guida); Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, F-94807, Villejuif, France (Drs Stücker, Guida); Institut für Epidemiologie I, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Neuherberg (Dr Brüske); Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University (Dr Wichmann); Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Epidemiology I (Dr Wichmann); Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany (Dr Wichmann); Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano and IRCCS Ca' Granda Foundation, Milan, Italy (Dr Pesatori); National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland (Drs Landi, Caporaso); Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Drs Tse, Yu); Research Centre of University of Montréal Hospital Centre, University of Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada (Drs Siemiatycki, Lavoué); Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy (Drs Richiardi, Mirabelli); Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy (Dr Simonato); Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany (Dr Jöckel); Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany (Drs Ahrens, Pohlabeln); CIBERESP, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain (Dr Tardón); Russian Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia (Dr Zaridze); Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Cancer Research Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (Dr Field); Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand (Drs 't Mannetje, Pearce); Public Health Ontario, Toronto (Dr McLaughlin); Occupational Cancer Research Centre, Cancer Care Ontario, Ontario, Toronto, Canada (Dr Demers); The Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz (Dr Szeszenia-Dabrowska); The M Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland (Dr Lissowska); National Public Health Center, Budapest, Hungary (Dr Rudnai); Regional Authority of Public Health, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia (Dr Fabianova); Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania (Dr Stanescu Dumitru); Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague (Dr Bencko); Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic (Dr Foretova); Palacky University, Faculty of Medicine, Olomouc (Dr Janout); Faculty of Medicine, Ostrava University, Ostrava, Czech Republic (Dr Janout); The Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York (Dr Boffetta); Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands (Drs Peters, Vermeulen, Kromhout); and Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Dr Peters).