Modifiable risk factors of lung cancer in "never-smoker" women.
- Author:
Jong Myon BAE
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- Publication Type:Meta-Analysis ; Original Article
- Keywords: Lung neoplasms; Risk factors; Hormone replacement therapy; Human papillomavirus; Meta-analysis
- MeSH: Adenocarcinoma; Case-Control Studies; Cohort Studies; Female; Hormone Replacement Therapy; Humans; Lung Neoplasms*; Lung*; Oncogenic Viruses; Risk Factors*; Smoke; Smoking
- From:Epidemiology and Health 2015;37(1):e2015047-
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Korean women with a history of never smoking and with adenocarcinoma showed an increasing trend in lung cancer occurrence during 2002 to 2012. The two modifiable factors of never-smoker lung cancer in women are hormone and oncogenic virus infection. Based on previous studies, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection might afford protection or be a risk factor, respectively. It is necessary to perform a pooled analysis of cohort studies to evaluate HRT and never-smoker lung cancer in women and a systematic review of case-control studies to determine the association between HPV infection and never-smoker lung cancer.
