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    MO11 - Screening and Epidemiology (ID 131)

    • Event: WCLC 2013
    • Type: Mini Oral Abstract Session
    • Track: Imaging, Staging & Screening
    • Presentations: 1
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      MO11.04 - Lung Cancer risk mediated through susceptibility to COPD: preliminary results from a sub-analysis of the NLST (ID 1540)

      16:30 - 16:35  |  Author(s): R.P. Young

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      Background
      Introduction: Based on a 20% reduction in lung cancer deaths in the CT screening arm of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), yearly CT screening for lung cancer is now widely recommended. Recently, a multivariate risk model for lung cancer (LC), be used to identify smokers at greatest risk, has been proposed to better select smokers for CT ([#]Tammemagi et al. JNCI 2011;103:1058).This risk model includes age smoking history, history of COPD, BMI, recent CXR and educational level. This model has been validated in the NLST where recent CXR and educational level was omitted due to the unavailability of this data. In this sub-study of the NLST, we examine the role of the known clinical risk factors for lung cancer and whether they mediate risk for lung cancer via risk for COPD. To test this we compared risk factors between LC cases and controls after stratifying cancer-free screening participants (controls) by spirometry-defined COPD.

      Methods
      Using a sub-group of the NLST (drawn for validation of a gene-based risk stratification tool), we compared known risk factors for LC (recently validated in the PLCO[#] study) in 345 screen-detected lung cancer cases and 1482 randomly selected cancer free screening controls stratified by COPD (pre-bronchodilator GOLD 1-4). These variables included age, pack years, family history of LC (FHx), self-reported COPD and BMI.

      Results
      When the LC risk variables were compared between LC cases (N=345) and the cancer-free screening controls, stratified from baseline data into controls with COPD (N=489) and without COPD (n=993) (see Table1), we found the following; age and pack years but not FHx were significantly higher in those with COPD and LC compared to cancer-free controls with no COPD, self reported COPD was 2 fold higher in COPD controls and LC cases compared to controls without COPD, and BMI was significantly lower in the LC cases and those with COPD compared to cancer-free controls with no COPD. Figure 1

      Conclusion
      These data from the NLST suggest the risk of LC is strongly mediated by variables underlying risk of COPD (age, pack years and BMI). [#]Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO)

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