title: Cadmium exposure and cancer mortality in a prospective cohort: the strong heart study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic metal classified as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We evaluated the association of long-term Cd exposure, as measured in urine, with cancer mortality in American Indians from Arizona, Oklahoma, and North and South Dakota who participated in the Strong Heart Study during 1989-1991.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Strong Heart Study was a prospective cohort study of 3,792 men and women 45-74 years of age who were followed for up to 20 years. Baseline urinary Cd (U-Cd) was measured using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. We assessed cancer events by annual mortality surveillance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The median (interquintile range) U-Cd concentration was 0.93 (0.55, 1.63) μg/g creatinine. After adjusting for sex, age, smoking status, cigarette pack-years, and body mass index, the adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) comparing the 80th versus the 20th percentiles of U-Cd were 1.30 (95% CI: 1.09, 1.55) for total cancer, 2.27 (95% CI: 1.58, 3.27) for lung cancer, and 2.40 (95% CI: 1.39, 4.17) for pancreatic cancer mortality. For all smoking-related cancers combined, the corresponding HR was 1.56 (95% CI: 1.24, 1.96). Cd was not significantly associated with liver, esophagus and stomach, colon and rectum, breast, prostate, kidney, or lymphatic and hematopoietic cancer mortality. On the basis of mediation analysis, we estimated that the percentage of lung cancer deaths due to tobacco smoking that could be attributed to Cd exposure was 9.0% (95% CI: 2.8, 21.8).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Low-to-moderate Cd exposure was prospectively associated with total cancer mortality and with mortality from cancers of the lung and pancreas. The implementation of population-based preventive measures to decrease Cd exposure could contribute to reducing the burden of cancer.
authors: Department of Environmental Health Science, and.
authors: Esther
authors: E
authors: García-Esquinas
authors: Marina
authors: M
authors: Pollan
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Tellez-Plaza
authors: Kevin A
authors: KA
authors: Francesconi
authors: Walter
authors: W
authors: Goessler
authors: Eliseo
authors: E
authors: Guallar
authors: Jason G
authors: JG
authors: Umans
authors: Jeunliang
authors: J
authors: Yeh
authors: Lyle G
authors: LG
authors: Best
authors: Ana
authors: A
authors: Navas-Acien
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002104:Cadmium / Q000633:toxicity*; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D011446:Prospective Studies
chemical_list: D002104:Cadmium