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Tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption as risk factors for thymoma – A European case-control study

Eriksson, Mikael LU orcid ; Kaerlev, Linda ; Johansen, Preben ; Afonso, Noemia ; Ahrens, Wolfgang ; Costa-Pereira, Altamiro ; Guénel, Pascal ; Jöckel, Karl Heinz ; Gonzalez, Agustin Llopis and Merletti, Franco , et al. (2019) In Cancer Epidemiology 61. p.133-138
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Purpose: Hardly anything is known about the aetiology of thymoma. This paper presents data regarding tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption in relation to thymoma from the first case-control study performed on this rare tumour. Methods: A European multi-centre case-control study including incident cases aged 35–69 years with thymoma between 1995 and 1997, was conducted in seven countries. A set of controls, used in seven parallel case-control studies by the same research group was used, including population-based controls from five countries and hospital controls with colon cancer from two countries. Altogether 103 cases, accepted by a reference pathologist, 712 colon cancer controls, and 2071 population controls were interviewed.... (More)

Purpose: Hardly anything is known about the aetiology of thymoma. This paper presents data regarding tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption in relation to thymoma from the first case-control study performed on this rare tumour. Methods: A European multi-centre case-control study including incident cases aged 35–69 years with thymoma between 1995 and 1997, was conducted in seven countries. A set of controls, used in seven parallel case-control studies by the same research group was used, including population-based controls from five countries and hospital controls with colon cancer from two countries. Altogether 103 cases, accepted by a reference pathologist, 712 colon cancer controls, and 2071 population controls were interviewed. Results: Tobacco smoking was moderately related with thymoma (OR 1.4, 95% CI 0.9–2.2), and a tendency to dose-response was shown (p = 0.04), with an increased risk for heavy smokers defined as ≥41 pack-years (OR 2.1, 95% CI 1.1–3.9). A high consumption of spirits defined as ≥25 g of alcohol per day was associated with an increased risk of thymoma (OR 2.4, 95% CI 1.1–5.4), whereas no association was found with beer or wine. Conclusions: Tobacco smoking and a high intake of spirits were indicated as risk factors for thymoma.

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Alcohol, Case-control study, Risk factors, Thymoma, Thymus cancer, Tobacco smoking
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Cancer Epidemiology
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61
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6 pages
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Elsevier
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  • scopus:85067898554
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1877-7821
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10.1016/j.canep.2019.06.008
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English
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  abstract     = {{<p>Purpose: Hardly anything is known about the aetiology of thymoma. This paper presents data regarding tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption in relation to thymoma from the first case-control study performed on this rare tumour. Methods: A European multi-centre case-control study including incident cases aged 35–69 years with thymoma between 1995 and 1997, was conducted in seven countries. A set of controls, used in seven parallel case-control studies by the same research group was used, including population-based controls from five countries and hospital controls with colon cancer from two countries. Altogether 103 cases, accepted by a reference pathologist, 712 colon cancer controls, and 2071 population controls were interviewed. Results: Tobacco smoking was moderately related with thymoma (OR 1.4, 95% CI 0.9–2.2), and a tendency to dose-response was shown (p = 0.04), with an increased risk for heavy smokers defined as ≥41 pack-years (OR 2.1, 95% CI 1.1–3.9). A high consumption of spirits defined as ≥25 g of alcohol per day was associated with an increased risk of thymoma (OR 2.4, 95% CI 1.1–5.4), whereas no association was found with beer or wine. Conclusions: Tobacco smoking and a high intake of spirits were indicated as risk factors for thymoma.</p>}},
  author       = {{Eriksson, Mikael and Kaerlev, Linda and Johansen, Preben and Afonso, Noemia and Ahrens, Wolfgang and Costa-Pereira, Altamiro and Guénel, Pascal and Jöckel, Karl Heinz and Gonzalez, Agustin Llopis and Merletti, Franco and Suárez-Varela, Maria Morales and Trétarre, Brigitte and Wingren, Gun and Richiardi, Lorenzo and Sabroe, Svend}},
  issn         = {{1877-7821}},
  keywords     = {{Alcohol; Case-control study; Risk factors; Thymoma; Thymus cancer; Tobacco smoking}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{133--138}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Cancer Epidemiology}},
  title        = {{Tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption as risk factors for thymoma – A European case-control study}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2019.06.008}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.canep.2019.06.008}},
  volume       = {{61}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}