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  • Hemminki, KariBiomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic; Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, Heidelberg, Germany (författare)

Incidence trends in bladder and lung cancers between Denmark, Finland and Sweden may implicate oral tobacco (snuff/snus) as a possible risk factor

  • Artikel/kapitelEngelska2021

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  • 2021-05-25
  • BioMed Central,2021
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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:umu-184198
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184198URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08371-wDOI

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  • Background: The dominant risk factor for urinary bladder cancer has been cigarette smoking, but, as smoking prevalence is decreasing in many populations, other risk factors may become uncovered. Such new risk factors could be responsible for halting the declining incidence of bladder cancer. We hypothesize that snuff use by Swedish men may increase the rate for bladder cancer, as snuff contains carcinogenic nitrosamines.Methods: We carried out an ecological study by comparing incidence trends in lung and bladder cancers between Danish, Finnish and Swedish men in order to test if the Swedish bladder cancer rate deviates from the Danish and Finnish ones. We used the NORDCAN database for cancer data from 1960 through 2016 to test the hypothesis.Results: In the three countries, the incidence of lung cancer started to decrease after a peak incidence, and this was later followed by declining incidence in bladder cancer in Denmark from 1990 to 2016 by 14.3%, in Finland by 8.3% but not in Sweden (the decline of 1.4% was not significant). The difference in trends can be partly explained by the increasing incidence in Swedish men aged 70 or more years. Sweden differs from the two other countries by low male smoking prevalence but increasing use of snuff recorded by various surveys.Conclusion: The stable bladder cancer trend for Swedish men was opposite to the declining trends in Denmark, Finland and globally. We suggest that this unusual finding may be related to the increasing use of snuff by Swedish men. Average users of snuff are exposed to at least 3 times higher levels of carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines than a smoker of one daily pack of cigarettes.

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  • Försti, AstaHopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany (författare)
  • Hemminki, AkseliCancer Gene Therapy Group, Translational Immunology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Comprehensive Cancer Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland (författare)
  • Ljungberg, Börje,Professor,1949-Umeå universitet,Urologi och andrologi(Swepub:umu)bolj0001 (författare)
  • Hemminki, OttoCancer Gene Therapy Group, Translational Immunology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Division of Urologic Oncology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University Health Network and University of Toronto, ON, Toronto, Canada; Department of Urology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (författare)
  • Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic; Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, Heidelberg, GermanyHopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany (creator_code:org_t)

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  • Ingår i:BMC Cancer: BioMed Central21:11471-2407

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