Health effects of air pollution on length of respiratory cancer survival

BMC Public Health

Claudia TK Lissaker¹  Barbara A Curbow²  Hui Hu¹  Haidong Kan³  Sandie Ha¹  Xiaohui Xu¹ 

[1] Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine, University of Florida, PO Box 100231, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA;Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA;Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

关键词: Lung cancer;    Respiratory cancer;    Cancer survival;    Cancer;    Air pollution;   

Others  :  1161852
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-800

 received in 2013-03-04, accepted in 2013-08-20,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Air pollution has been extensively and consistently linked with mortality. However, no study has investigated the health effects of air pollution on length of survival among diagnosed respiratory cancer patients.

Methods

In this study, we conducted a population-based study to investigate if air pollution exposure has adverse effects on survival time of respiratory cancer cases in Los Angeles (LA), CA and Honolulu, HI. We selected all White respiratory cancer patients in the two study areas from the 1992–2008 Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results cancer data. Death from respiratory cancer and length of survival were the main outcomes.

Results

Kaplan-Meier survival analysis shows that all respiratory cancer cases exposed to high air pollution referring to the individuals from LA had a significantly shorter survival time than the low pollution exposure group referring to those from Honolulu without adjusting for other covariates (p <0.0001). Moreover, the results from the Cox Proportional-Hazards models suggest that exposure to particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter (PM₁₀) was associated with an increased risk of cancer death (HR = 1.48, 95% CI: 1.44-1.52 per 10 μg/m³ increase in PM₁₀) after adjusting for demographic factors and cancer characteristics. Similar results were observed for particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter and ozone.

Conclusion

Our study indicates that air pollution may have deleterious effects on the length of survival among White respiratory cancer patients. This study calls for attention to preventive effort from air pollution for this susceptible population in standard cancer patient care. The findings from this study warrant further investigation.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Xu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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