10.1289/ehp.1002217Environmental Health Perspectives118121743-174

Adeline Seow

Angeline S. Andrew

Behera D

Dana Mates

David Zaridze

Eleonóra Fabiánová

Eric J. Duell

Ezzati M

H. Dean Hosgood

Hal Morgenstern

Hernández-Garduño E

IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer)

John McLaughlin

Jolanta Lissowska

Kiraz K

Lan Q

Lenka Foretova

Nathaniel Rothman

Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska

Paolo Boffetta

Paul Brennan

Peter Rudnai

Peters E

Qing Lan

Rayjean J. Hung

Sander Greenland

Seow A

Vladimir Bencko

Vladimir Janout

World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank

Yuan-Chin Amy Lee

Environmental Health Perspectives

English

PubMed

BACKGROUND: Domestic fuel combustion from cooking and heating is an important public health issue because roughly 3 billion people are exposed worldwide. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified indoor emissions from household coal combustion as a human carcinogen (group 1) and from biomass fuel (primarily wood) as a probable human carcinogen (group 2A).
OBJECTIVES: We pooled seven studies from the International Lung Cancer Consortium (5,105 cases and 6,535 controls) to provide further epidemiological evaluation of the association between in-home solid-fuel use, particularly wood, and lung cancer risk.
METHODS: Using questionnaire data, we classified subjects as predominant solid-fuel users (e.g., coal, wood) or nonsolid-fuel users (e.g., oil, gas, electricity). Unconditional logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) and to compute 95% confidence intervals (CIs), adjusting for age, sex, education, smoking status, race/ethnicity, and study center.
RESULTS: Compared with nonsolid-fuel users, predominant coal users (OR = 1.64; 95% CI, 1.49-1.81), particularly coal users in Asia (OR = 4.93; 95% CI, 3.73-6.52), and predominant wood users in North American and European countries (OR = 1.21; 95% CI, 1.06-1.38) experienced higher risk of lung cancer. The results were similar in never-smoking women and other subgroups.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results are consistent with previous observations pertaining to in-home coal use and lung cancer risk, support the hypothesis of a carcinogenic potential of in-home wood use, and point to the need for more detailed study of factors affecting these associations

Hosgood, H Dean

Boffetta, Paolo

Greenland, Sander

Lee, Yuan-Chin Amy

McLaughlin, John

Seow, Adeline

Duell, Eric J

Andrew, Angeline S

Zaridze, David

Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Neonila

Rudnai, Peter

Lissowska, Jolanta

Fabiánová, Eleonóra

Mates, Dana

Bencko, Vladimir

Foretova, Lenka

Janout, Vladimir

Morgenstern, Hal

Rothman, Nathaniel

Hung, Rayjean J

Brennan, Paul

Lan, Qing

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In-Home Coal and Wood Use and Lung Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of the International Lung Cancer Consortium

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Background: Domestic fuel combustion from cooking and heating is an important public health issue because roughly 3 billion people are exposed worldwide. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifed indoor emissions from household coal combustion as a human carcinogen (group 1) and from biomass fuel (primarily wood) as a probable human carcinogen (group 2A). oB je c t iv e s: We pooled seven studies from the International Lung Cancer Consortium (5,105 cases and 6,535 controls) to provide further epidemiological evaluation of the association between in-home solid-fuel use, particularly wood, and lung cancer risk. Methods: Using questionnaire data, we classifed subjects as predominant solid-fuel users (e.g., coal, wood) or nonsolid-fuel users (e.g., oil, gas, electricity). Unconditional logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) and to compute 95% confdence intervals (CIs), adjusting for age, sex, education, smoking status, race/ethnicity, and study center. results: Compared with nonsolid-fuel users, predominant coal users (OR = 1.64; 95% CI, 1.49-1.81), particularly coal users in Asia (OR = 4.93; 95% CI, 3.73-6.52), and predominant wood users in North American and European countries (OR = 1.21; 95% CI, 1.06-1.38) experienced higher risk of lung cancer. Te results were similar in never-smoking women and other subgroups. conclusions: Our results are consistent with previous observations pertaining to in-home coal use and lung cancer risk, support the hypothesis of a carcinogenic potential of in-home wood use, and point to the need for more detailed study of factors afecting these associations

Dean Hosgood, H.

Boffetta, P.

Greenland, S.

Lee, Y. -C. A.

Mclaughlin, J.

Seow, A.

Duell, E. J.

Andrew, A. S.

Zaridze, D.

Szeszenia-Dabrowska, N.

Rudnai, P.

Lissowska, J.

Fabiánová, E.

Mates, D.

Bencko, V.

Foretova, L.

Janout, V.

Morgenstern, H.

Rothman, N.

Hung, R. J.

Brennan, P.

Lan, Q.

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In-home coal and wood use and lung cancer risk: A pooled analysis of the international lung cancer consortium

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In-Home Coal and Wood Use and Lung Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of the International Lung Cancer Consortium

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