%0 Journal Article
%T El c¨¢ncer de pulm¨®n como marcador de tabaquismo: relaci¨®n con la mortalidad por c¨¢ncer no pulmonar
%A P¨¦rez-R¨ªos
%A M¨®nica
%A Leistikow
%A Bruce
%A Montes
%A Agust¨ªn
%J Gaceta Sanitaria
%D 2009
%I Ediciones Doyma, S.L.
%R 10.1590/S0213-91112009000300012
%X objective: to assess the possible role of tobacco smoke in non-lung cancer (excluding stomach cancer) using changes in lung cancer mortality rates as a proxy for tobacco exposure. methods: a time series analysis of cancer mortality was performed to evaluate the possible association between changes in mortality rates for lung cancer and for non-lung, non-stomach cancer (nlns) from 1970 to 2003 in spanish males. to avoid problems with autocorrelation, prais-winsten regression was applied. results: changes in nlns cancer death rates showed a parallel trend with lung cancer death rates in the study period, with an adjusted slope of 1.07, 95% ci of 0.98-1.17, and r2 of 0.97. conclusion: variation in nlns cancer death rates can be accurately modelled as a function of changes in lung cancer death rates for the study period, suggesting a possible association between tobacco exposure and nlns cancers.
%K lung cancer
%K mortality
%K smoking.
%U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0213-91112009000300012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en