Impact of changing US cigarette smoking patterns on incident cancer: risks of 20 smoking-related cancers among the women and men of the NIH-AARP cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Historically, US women started smoking at a later age than men and had lower relative risks for smoking-related cancers. However, more recent birth cohorts of women and men have similar smoking histories and have now reached the high-risk age for cancer. The impact of these changes on cancer incidence has not been systematically examined.

Methods

Relative risks (RR), 95% confidence intervals (CI) and attributable fractions were calculated for cigarette smoking and incidence of 20 smoking-related cancers in 186 057 women and 266 074 men of the National Institutes of Health-AARP cohort, aged 50 to 71 years in 1995 and followed for 11 years.

Results

In the cohort, which included participants born between 1924 and 1945, most women and men started smoking as tee

SUBMITTER: Freedman ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5005940 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature