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Letter to the Editor: Cancer rates not explained by smoking: how to investigate a single county
Environmental Health
(2021)
Abstract
We recently published “Cancer rates not explained by smoking: a county-level analysis” in your journal [1]. Using U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer incidence and population data for 612 counties [2], we simulated the expected effect of eliminating smoking on the rates of 12 types of cancer known to be caused by smoking [3]. We estimated that in 2016, 39.8 % of the cancer incidence of these 12 types would not have occurred had smoking been eliminated. Conversely, about 60 % of these cancers would still occur, even in the absence of smoking. This finding is in good agreement with previously published estimates of the “attributable fraction” of cancer due to smoking [4].
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Publication Date
May 21, 2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00737-8
Publisher Statement
Dataset analyzed during the current study is publicly available at the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER) repository, https://seer.cancer.gov/data/.
Citation Information
Douglas J. Myers, Polly Hoppin, Molly Jacobs, Richard Clapp, et al.. "Letter to the Editor: Cancer rates not explained by smoking: how to investigate a single county" Environmental Health Vol. 20 Iss. 1 (2021) p. 62-1 - 62-3 ISSN: 1476-069X Available at: http://works.bepress.com/douglas-myers/11/
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