[An evaluation of the role of radiation and nonradiation factors in the development of lung cancer in workers at a radiochemical enterprise (1)].

Abstract

A case-control study using logistic regression included 500 employees of the nuclear works (162 patients with lung carcinoma and 338 healthy controls). After examination of radiation and nonradiation causative factors 5 proved statistically significant. For them the following chance proportions were obtained: smoking 6.6, plutonium pneumosclerosis 4.6, plutonium incorporation 3.1, chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases 2.1, external gamma-radiation 1.6. Attributive risk for the total of the radiation factors makes up 25% at the most while of the nonradiation factors at least 70%.

• Authors: Z B Tokarskaia, N D Okladnikova, Z D Beliaeva
• Journal: Terapevticheskii arkhiv (Ter Arkh) Vol. 68 Issue 3 Pg. 37-40 ( 1996) ISSN: 0040-3660 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Otsenka roli radiatsionnykh i ne radiatsionnykh faktorov v razvitii raka legkogo u rabotnikov radiokhimicheskogo predpriiatiia (soobshchenie 1).
• PMID: 8744101 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Plutonium

Topics

• Aged
• Case-Control Studies
• Female
• Humans
• Logistic Models
• Lung Neoplasms (epidemiology, etiology)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced (epidemiology, etiology)
• Occupational Diseases (epidemiology, etiology)
• Plutonium (adverse effects)
• Power Plants
• Radiation Dosage
• Risk Factors
• Siberia (epidemiology)
• Smoking (adverse effects, epidemiology)