Age at lung cancer diagnosis in females versus males who never smoke by race and ethnicity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We characterized age at diagnosis and estimated sex differences for lung cancer and its histological subtypes among individuals who never smoke.

Methods

We analyzed the distribution of age at lung cancer diagnosis in 33,793 individuals across 8 cohort studies and two national registries from East Asia, the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK). Student's t-tests were used to assess the study population differences (Δ years) in age at diagnosis comparing females and males who never smoke across subgroups defined by race/ethnicity, geographic location, and histological subtypes.

Results

We found that among Chinese individuals diagnosed with lung cancer who never smoke, females were diagnosed with lung cancer younger than males in the Taiwan Cancer Re

SUBMITTER: Blechter B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11014844 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature