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<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>To investigate the risk factors of lung cancer in female nonsmokers.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>An 1:1 matched case-control study was carried out in Shenyang, P.R.China. A questionnaire covering demographics, family history of cancer, previous disease history, living conditions, passive smoking history, occupational exposure, diet/nutritional preferences and cooking habits, sources of indoor pollution and so on was used to ask each subject. A total of 126 new cases diagnozed as primary lung cancer and 126 controls matched for age and sex were randomly selected from the female nonsmokers.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Adenocarcinoma was the main type of female lung cancer, accounting for 62.7%. The higher number of deliveries was, the more risk of lung cancer was (OR=1.466, 95%CI=1.06-2.01). The lower the body mass index (BMI), the higher the risk of lung cancer (OR=2.082, 95%CI=1.2-3.60). With the increase of BMI, the risk of lung cancer decreased. Eating too much viscera (OR=1.891, 95%CI=1.45-2.46), maize and sorghum (OR=1.538, 95%CI= 1.22 -1.93) could increase the risk of lung cancer. Using petroleum gas as fuel (OR=1.741, 95%CI=1.29-2.34) and indoor coal burning (OR=1.785, 95%CI=1.33-2.38) were lung cancer's risk factors, too. The OR value of family cancer history of first-class relatives was 3.18 (95%CI=2.43-4.15).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The results suggest that low value of BMI, high number of child deliveries, eating too much viscera, maize and sorghum, indoor coal burning and using petroleum gas as fuel can increase the risk of lung cancer in female nonsmokers.</p>
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Objective As part of the basic for cost-benefit assessment in decision for environmental protection measures, health benefit from improvement of air pollution was provided through this study. Methods According to the results from many well-done studies of local, domestic, and international authoritative institutions on relationship of air pollution and health impact, E-R functions (Exposure-Response) in terms of total mortality and morbidity of respiratory diseases from acute and chronic effects associated with increase of unit air pollutants (each 100 ?g/m3 TSP and 10 ?g/m3 SO2) were identified. As a real practice, the excess (avoidable) number of deaths and patients of respiratory diseases associated with 100 ?g/m3 TSP and 10 ?g/m3 SO2 of air pollution were estimated for Fushun City in year of 2000. The costs of medical treatment, as well as the payment for labor days were investigated. The direct and indirect economic losses from corresponding diseases were calculated. As for the estimation of economic loss from excess deaths, three methods of evaluation were applied, i.e. labor capital method; value of statistics life (VOSL), namely the method of willing to pay (WTP); and value of life year (VOLY). Results The total economic benefit combined from above aspects resulting from decreasing 100 ?g/m3 TSP ranges over 1.4 hundred millions-3.4 hundred millions yuan, accounting for 0.75%-1.95% of total product value (GDP) of Fushun City in year of 2000. Methods and indices of monetary estimation for health impact of air pollution adapted to Liaoning city was suggested. As the author's point of view, the third method of VOLY was preferable, by which, 1.48 hundred millions yuan benefit was estimated, accounting for 0.85% of GDP. Conclusions Domestic E-R functions should be worked out for assessing economic loss due to environmental pullution.
