Increasing lung cancer death rates among young women in southern and midwestern States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Previous studies reported that declines in age-specific lung cancer death rates among women in the United States abruptly slowed in women younger than age 50 years (ie, women born after the 1950s). However, in view of substantial geographic differences in antitobacco measures and sociodemographic factors that affect smoking prevalence, it is unknown whether this change in the trend was similar across all states.

Methods

We examined female age-specific lung cancer death rates (1973 through 2007) by year of death and birth in each state by using age-period-cohort models. Cohort relative risks adjusted for age and period effects were used to compare the lung cancer death rate for a given birth cohort to a referent birth cohort (ie, the 1933 cohort herein).

Results

SUBMITTER: Jemal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3402885 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature