Health effects of air pollution on length of respiratory cancer survival.

ABSTRACT:

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

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3766670 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature