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Active and Passive Smoking and Pathological Indicators of Lung Cancer Risk in an Autopsy Study pp.152-153
Published Date 1993/2/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1543901406
  • Abstract

Objective.- The association between involuntary smoking and lung cancer has been supported by most epidemiologic studies, but a number of authors and interest groups claim that the possibility of bias has not been excluded. Few autopsy-based studies have explored the role of active smoking and other exposures in lung carcinogenesis, and none has been previously done to examine the role of passive smoking. We have undertaken such an autopsy based study in Athens, Greece.

Design.- Lung specimens were taken at autopsy from 400 person 35 years of ageor older, of both genders, who had died within 4 hours from a cause other thanrespiratory or cancer in Athens or the surrounding area. For each person at leastseven tissue blocks were taken from the main and lobar bronchi and at least fiveblocks from the parenchyma, including an average of about 20 smaller cartilaginous bronchi and membranous bronchioles. The specimens were examined with-out knowledge of the exposures of the particular subject in Turin, Italy. For 283(71%) of the subjects the preservation of the bronchial epithelium was satisfactory for pathological examination, and for 206 among them (73%) an interviewcould be arranged with their next of kin, focusing on smoking habits of thedeceased and their spouses, as well as other variables. The interviewers were notaware of the results of the pathological examinations.


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