Occupation, gender, race, and lung cancer.
OBJECTIVE
To examine associations between occupation and lung cancer by gender and race.


METHODS
We used data from the Maryland Lung Cancer Study of nonsmall cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), a multicenter case control study, to estimate odds ratios (ORs) of NSCLC in different occupations.


RESULTS
After adjusting for smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, and other covariates, NSCLC ORs among women but not men were elevated in clerical-sales, service, and transportation-material handling occupations; ORs were significantly increased in all three categories (OR [95% confidence interval]: 4.07 [1.44 to 11.48]; 5.15 [1.62 to 16.34]; 7.82 [1.08 to 56.25], respectively), among black women, but only in transportation-material handling occupations (OR [95% confidence interval[: 3.43 [1.02 to 11.50]) among white women.


CONCLUSIONS
Women, especially black women, in certain occupations had increased NSCLC ORs.
Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. samr@epi.umaryland.edu
Sania
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Amr
Beverly
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Wolpert
Christopher A
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Loffredo
Yun-Ling
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Zheng
Peter G
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Shields
Raymond
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Jones
Curtis C
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Harris
D000368:Aged; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008396:Maryland / Q000453:epidemiology; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D016017:Odds Ratio