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  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Toxicology

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  • Diesel engine exhaust (DEE) carcinogenicity is established, but exposure-response relationships for specific lung cancer subtypes and subgroups remain unclear.
  • Previous pooled analyses on DEE and lung cancer lacked quantitative exposure assessment.
  • Elemental carbon (EC) is a key marker for DEE exposure.

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  • To evaluate lung cancer and subtype risks associated with occupational DEE exposure using quantitative elemental carbon (EC) concentrations.
  • To expand on prior research by including additional studies and detailed exposure assessment.
  • To investigate exposure-response relationships and calculate excess lifetime risks (ELR).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a quantitative EC job-exposure matrix for exposure assessment.
  • Employed unconditional logistic regression to calculate lung cancer odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
  • Calculated lung cancer ELR using life tables and conducted stratified analyses by smoking history and lung cancer subtypes in men.

Main Results:

  • Included 16,901 lung cancer cases and 20,965 controls.
  • Observed a significant exposure-response relationship between EC and lung cancer in men (ORs from 1.09 to 1.41).
  • Found elevated risks across all lung cancer subtypes, strongest for squamous and small cell carcinomas, and observed this regardless of smoking history.

Conclusions:

  • A consistent exposure-response relationship between EC exposure and lung cancer was confirmed in men.
  • Occupational EC exposure is associated with increased risk for all lung cancer subtypes.
  • Reducing workplace EC levels to background environmental concentrations is recommended to decrease lung cancer ELR.