TY - JOUR
T1 - Letter to the Editor: Cancer rates not explained by smoking: how to investigate a single county
T2 - Cancer rates not explained by smoking: how to investigate a single county
AU - Myers, Douglas J.
AU - Hoppin, Polly
AU - Jacobs, Molly
AU - Clapp, Richard
AU - Kriebel, David
PY - 2021/5/21
Y1 - 2021/5/21
N2 - 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].
AB - 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].
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106713310&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s12940-021-00737-8
DO - 10.1186/s12940-021-00737-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 34020653
SN - 1476-069X
VL - 20
JO - Environmental Health
JF - Environmental Health
IS - 1
M1 - 62
ER -
