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. 2012 Sep 3;12:385. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-385

Table 2.

Selected details of the 287 studies of lung cancer

Study REF Main ref Other refs Brief study descriptiona Outcome(s)b Casesc Full Histd Princ REFe
ABELIN
[29]
[30]
Switzerland rural CC 1941-64
All
118
No
 
ABRAHA
[31]
[32]
Hungary Budapest cohort 1975-94
All,Sq,Ad
571
No
 
AGUDO
[33]
 
Spain Barcelona area CC 1989-92
All
103
No
 
AKIBA
[34]
[35-37]
Japan atomic bomb survivors cohort 1963-87
All
610
No
 
ALDERSf
[38]
[39,40]
UK CC 1977-82
All,Sq,Ad
1448
No
 
AMANDU
[41]
 
US metal miner cohort 1959-75
All
132
No
 
AMES
[42]
[43]
US 4 NIOSH coal miner cohorts nested CC 1959-75
All
317
No
 
ANDERS
[44]
[45-47]
US Iowa Women's Health cohort 1986-94
All,Sq,Ad
343
No
 
ARCHER
[48]
[49-53]
US uranium miners cohort 1950-74
All
146
No
 
ARMADA
[54]
 
Spain CC 1986-90
All
325
Yes
 
AUSTIN
[55]
[56]
US Ohio foundry workers CC 1970-86
All
166
No
 
AUVINE
[57]
[58-60]
Finland radon CC 1986-92
All
517
No
 
AXELSO
[61]
 
Sweden radon CC 1960-81
All
152
No
 
AXELSS
[62]
[63-65]
Sweden 26 municipality CC 1989-93
All
436
No
 
BAND
[66]
 
Canada occupational CC 1983-90
All,Sq,Ad
2831
Yes
 
BARBON
[67]
[68-72]
Italy Trieste CC 1979-86
All,Sq,Ad
755
Yes
 
BECHER
[73]
[74,75]
Germany pilot for BIPS CC 1985-86
All,Sq,Ad
194
Yes
 
BENHAM
[76]
[77-81]
France CC 1976-80
All,Sq,Ad
1625
Yes
LUBIN2
BENSHL
[82]
[83-85]
UK Whitehall civil servants cohort 1967-87
All
486
No
 
BERRIN
[86]
[87]
Italy CC 1977-80
All
1101
Yes
LUBIN2
BEST
[88]
[89-91]
Canada war veteran pensioners cohort 1955-62
All
381
No
 
BLOHMK
[92]
 
Germany Heidelberg personality CC
All
888
Yes
 
BLOT1
[93]
 
US Georgia CC 1970-76
All
458
No
 
BLOT3
[94]
[95,96]
US Florida CC 1976-79
All
321
No
 
BLOT4
[97]
[96]
US Pennsylvania CC 1974-77
All
335
No
 
BOFFET
[98]
 
West Europe pipe and cigar CC 1988-94
All
5621
No
 
BOUCHA
[99]
 
France Paris CC 1988-92
Sq
150
Yes
 
BOUCOT
[100]
[101-103]
US Philadelphia LC Research cohort 1951-65
All,Sq,Ad
121
No
 
BRESLO
[104]
[105]
US California CC 1949-52
All,Sq,Ad
518
Yes
 
BRETT
[106]
 
UK X-ray volunteers cohort 1960-63
All
150
No
 
BROCKM
[107]
 
Germany Berlin CC study 1990-92
All
117
Yes
 
BROSS
[108]
[109]
US Roswell Park Memorial CC study 1960-66
All
974
No
 
BROWN1
[110]
 
US Colorado adenocarcinoma CC 1979-82
Ad
102
Yes
 
BROWN2
[111]
 
US Missouri CC 1984-90
All,Sq,Ad
14596
Yes
 
BUELL
[112]
 
US California American Legion cohort 1957-62
All
304
No
 
BUFFLE
[113]
[114-118]
US Texas 6 counties CC 1976-80
All,Sq,Ad
943
No
 
BYERS1
[119]
 
US Roswell Park Memorial CC 1957-65
Sq,Ad
1002
No
BROSS, GRAHAM
BYERS2
[120]
 
US Western New York Diet CC 1980-84
All
448
Yes
 
CARPEN
[121]
[122-126]
US California Genetics CC 1991-94
All
356
No
 
CASCO2
[127]
 
Germany Berlin NAT2 Genotyping CC 1991-94
All
155
No
 
CASCOR
[127]
 
Germany Berlin NAT2 Phenotyping CC
All
389
Yes
 
CEDERL
[128]
[129-131]
Sweden cohort 1963-89
All
491
No
 
CHAN
[132]
 
Hong Kong 5 hospital CC 1976-77
All,Sq,Ad
397
No
 
CHANG
[133]
 
US California cholesterol cohort 1972-91
All
136
No
 
CHATZI
[134]
 
Greece Athens CC 1987-88
All
282
Yes
 
CHEN
[135]
 
Taiwan Taipai CC
Sq,Ad
323
Yes
 
CHEN2
[136]
[137]
China Guangzhou CC
All
193
No
 
CHEN3
[137]
[138,139]
China Zhengzhou CC
All
254
No
 
CHIAZZ
[140]
[141]
US Owens-Corning Fiberglass Newark CC 1940-82
All
144
No
 
CHOI
[142]
 
South Korea Cancer Centre CC 1985-88
All,Sq,Ad
375
No
 
CHOW
[143]
 
US Lutheran Brotherhood Ins. cohort 1966-86
All
219
No
 
CHYOU
[144]
[145,146]
US Hawaii Oahu Japanese cohort 1965-90
All,Sq,Ad
227
Yes
 
COMSTO
[147]
 
US Washington Co Serum Bank nested CC 1975-93
All,Sq,Ad
258
No
 
COOKSO
[148]
 
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Harare CC 1961-72
All
234
Yes
 
CORREA
[149]
[95,96,150-152]
US Louisiana CC 1979-82
All,Sq,Ad
1359
No
 
CPSIg
[153]
[154-178]
US ACS million person CPSI cohort 1959-72
All,Sq,Ad
5138
No
 
CPSII
[179]
[6,175-178,180-188]
US 2nd ACS cancer prevention cohort 1982-94
All,Sq,Ad
3229
No
 
DAMBER
[189]
[190-196]
Sweden North CC 1972-77
All,Sq,Ad
579
No
 
DARBY
[197]
 
UK SW England radon CC 1988-93
All
982
No
 
DAVEYS
[198]
[198-201]
Germany Thuringia (Schairer&Schoniger) CC 1930-41
All
109
No
 
DEAN
[202]
[203]
South Africa CC 1947-56
All
603
No
 
DEAN2
[204]
[205]
UK/N Ireland CC 1960-62
All
954
No
 
DEAN3h
[206]
[207]
UK Cleveland Co CC 1969-73
All
766
No
 
DEKLER
[208]
[209,210]
Australia Kalgoorlie miners cohort 1961-93
All
138
No
 
DESTE2
[211]
[211-217]
Uruguay Montevideo CC 1993-96
All,Sq,Ad
463
No
 
DESTEF
[218]
[219-221]
Uruguay Montevideo CC 1988-94
All,Sq,Ad
497
Yes
 
DOCKER
[222]
[223]
US Harvard six cities cohort 1974-91
All
120
No
 
DOLL
[3]
[224-227]
UK original Doll and Hill CC 1948-52
All,Sq,Ad
1465
No
 
DOLL2i
[228]
[229-239]
UK British Doctors cohort 1951-91
All
920
No
 
DORANT
[240]
[241-243]
Netherlands case-cohort 1986-89
All
550
Yes
 
DORGAN
[244]
[95,96,245-250]
US New Jersey CC 1980-83
All,Sq,Ad
2026
Yes
 
DORN
[251]
[252-260]
US Veterans cohort 1954-80
All,Sq,Ad
5097
No
 
DOSEME
[261]
 
Turkey Istanbul CC 1979-84
All,Sq,Ad
1210
No
 
DROSTE
[262]
 
Belgium Antwerp CC 1995-97
All
478
Yes
 
DU
[263]
[264]
China Guangzhou CC 1985
All
849
No
 
DUNN
[265]
 
US California 9 occupations cohort 1954-58
All
139
No
 
EBELIN
[266]
 
Germany Berlin (Lichtenberg) CC 1980-85
All
130
No
 
ENGELA
[267]
[268-270]
Norway cohort 1964-93
All,Sq,Ad
435
No
 
ENSTRO
[271]
 
US California CPSI cohort 1959-97
All
2879
No
 
ESAKI
[272]
 
Japan Omuta and Arao CC 1961-71
All
245
No
 
FAN
[273]
 
China Sino-MONICA-Beijing Project CC 1990-91
All,Sq,Ad
403
No
 
GAO
[274]
[137,139,275-281]
China Shanghai CC 1984-86
All,Sq,Ad
1405
No
 
GAO2
[282]
[283]
Japan Tokai diet CC 1988-91
All
282
No
 
GARCIA
[284]
[285-287]
US Boston genetics CC 1992-96
All
416
Yes
 
GARDIN
[288]
[289]
UK/Scotland Airdrie avian CC 1988-92
All
143
No
 
GARSHI
[290]
 
US railroad workers diesel CC 1981-82
All
1081
No
 
GENG
[291]
[292]
China Tianjin CC
All
292
No
 
GER
[293]
[294]
Taiwan Tri-Service General Hospital 1990-91
All,Sq,Ad
141
No
 
GILLIS
[295]
[87]
UK/Scotland West CC 1977-81
All,Sq,Ad
656
No
LUBIN2
GODLEY
[296]
[297]
US 1966–68 NMFS & 1967 current pop survey CC
All
1986
No
 
GOLLED
[298]
[299]
UK Teeside CC 1952-62
All
443
No
 
GOODMA
[300]
[301]
US Hawaii CC 1983-85
All
326
Yes
 
GRAHAM
[302]
 
US Roswell Park Memorial CC 1956-60
All
685
No
 
GREGOR
[303]
 
UK Brompton Hospital vitamin A CC 1976-77
All
104
Yes
 
GSELL
[304]
[305]
Switzerland St Gallen CC 1937-54
All
150
Yes
 
GUO
[306]
 
China Quanshan county Jiangsu CC 1984-86
All
196
No
 
HAENSZ
[307]
 
US Multiple hospital CC 1955-57
All,Sq,Ad
158
Yes
 
HAMMO2
[308]
[309-312]
US & Canada asbestos workers cohort 1967-76
All
450
No
 
HAMMON
[313]
[314-320]
US 9 state cohort 1952-55
All,Sq,Ad
448
No
 
HANSEN
[321]
[322]
Denmark welding companies cohort 1968-86
All
105
No
 
HEGMAN
[323]
[324]
US Utah radon CC 1989-91
All,Sq,Ad
282
Yes
 
HEIN
[325]
 
Denmark Copenhagen Male cohort 1970-88
All
144
No
 
HENNEK
[326]
[327]
US doctors betacarotene trial cohort 1982-95
All
169
No
 
HINDS
[328]
 
US Hawaii CC 1968-78
All,Sq,Ad
292
No
 
HIRAY2
[329]
[330]
Japan Tokyo CC 1950-52
All
145
No
 
HIRAYAj
[331]
[330,332-345]
Japan 6 prefecture cohort 1965-82
All
1917
No
 
HITOSU
[346]
 
Japan Amagaski and Nishinomiya CC 1960-66
All
216
No
 
HOLEk
[347]
[348-351]
UK/Scotland Renfrew & Paisley cohort 1972-85
All
225
No
 
HOROWI
[352]
 
Canada Montreal CC 1956-67
All
236
No
 
HORWIT
[353]
 
US Yale/New Haven CC 1977-82
All
112
No
 
HU
[354]
 
China Heilongjiang 5 hospital CC study 1985-87
All
227
Yes
 
HU2
[355]
[137,139,356]
China Harbin CC study 1977-79
All
523
No
 
HUANG
[357]
 
China Sichuan CC 1990-91
All
135
No
 
HUMBLE
[358]
[359-362]
US New Mexico statewide CC 1980-82
All
521
No
 
ISHIMA
[363]
[364]
Japan A bomb survivors CC 1961-70
All,Sq,Ad
180
Yes
AKIBA
JAHN
[365]
[366-369]
Germany BIPS CC 1988-93
All,Sq,Ad
1004
No
BOFFET
JAIN
[370]
[371,372]
Canada Ontario CC 1981-85
All,Sq,Ad
845
No
 
JARUP
[373]
[374,375]
Sweden smelter workers CC 1928-81
All
102
No
 
JARVHO
[376]
 
Sweden Goteborg asbestos CC 1983-84
All
147
No
 
JEDRYC
[377]
[378-382]
Poland CC 1980-87
All,Sq,Ad
1630
No
 
JIANG
[383]
[137,139]
China Nanchang CC 1984
All,Sq,Ad
125
No
 
JOLY
[384]
 
Cuba Havana CC 1978-80
All,Sq,Ad
826
No
 
JUSSAW
[385]
 
India Greater Bombay CC 1964-73
All,Sq,Ad
792
No
 
KAISE2
[386]
[387,388]
US California Kaiser cohort 1979-91
All
318
No
 
KAISER
[389]
[390]
US California Kaiser cohort 1964-80
All
714
No
 
KANELL
[391]
[391,392]
Greece Hellenic Anticancer Inst CC 1950-62
All
862
No
 
KATSOU
[393]
 
Greece Athens CC 1987-89
All,Sq,Ad
101
No
 
KAUFMA
[394]
 
US & Canada tar level CC 1981-86
All
881
No
 
KELLER
[395]
 
US Illinois CC 1985-87
All
15038
No
 
KHUDER
[396]
 
US Philadelphia 15 hospital CC 1985-87
All,Sq,Ad
482
Yes
 
KIHARA
[397]
[398]
Japan Kanagawa genetic CC 1991-98
All,Sq,Ad
440
No
 
KINLEN
[399]
 
UK tea drinking cohort 1967-86
All
718
No
 
KJUUS
[400]
[401,402]
Norway Telemark and Vestfold CC 1979-83
All
176
No
 
KNEKT
[403]
[404-407]
Finland Mobile Clinic Health cohort 1966-91
All
515
No
 
KO
[408]
 
Taiwan Kaohsiung CC 1992-93
All
117
Yes
 
KOHLME
[409]
 
Germany Berlin pet birds CC 1990
All
239
No
 
KOO
[410]
[411-414]
Hong Kong 8 hospital CC 1981-83
All,Sq,Ad
200
No
 
KOULUM
[415]
 
Finland Helsinki CC 1936-52
All
812
No
 
KREUZE
[416]
[417,418]
Germany radon CC 1990-96
All
2260
No
BOFFET
KREYBE
[419]
[420,421]
Norway CC 1948-53
All,Sq,Ad
300
Yes
 
KUBIK
[422]
[423]
Czechoslovakia Kolin district cohort 1965-71
All
108
No
 
LAMTH
[424]
[411]
Hong Kong 8 hospital CC 1983-86
All,Sq,Ad
445
No
 
LAMWK
[425]
[411]
Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital CC 1981-84
All,Sq,Ad
163
No
 
LAMWK2
[426]
[132,413]
Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital CC 1976-80
All,Sq,Ad
480
No
 
LANGE
[427]
[428-430]
Denmark Copenhagen City Heart cohort 1976-89
All
268
No
 
LAURIL
[431]
[432,433]
Finland ATBC nested CC 1988-93
All
230
No
 
LAUSSM
[434]
 
Germany Aue/Saxony uranium miners CC 1982-89
All
432
No
 
LEI
[435]
 
China Guangzhou CC 1986
All
792
No
 
LEMARC
[436]
 
US Hawaii Oahu genotyping CC 1992-97
All
341
Yes
 
LETOUR
[437]
 
Canada Winnipeg radon CC 1983-90
All
738
Yes
 
LEVIN
[438]
[302,439,440]
US Roswell Park Memorial CC 1938-52
All
475
No
 
LIAW
[441]
 
Taiwan 12 township cohort 1982-94
All
127
No
 
LICKIN
[442]
[443,444]
Germany West CC
All
224
No
 
LIDDEL
[445]
[446-449]
Canada Quebec chrysotile mine cohort 1970-88
All
304
No
 
LIU
[450]
 
China Shun Yi CC 1980-86
All
229
No
 
LIU2
[451]
 
China Guangzhou CC 1983-84
All
316
No
 
LIU3
[452]
[137,453,454]
China Xuanwei farmers CC 1985-86
All
110
No
 
LIU4
[455]
 
China million deaths 1986-88
All
100000
No
 
LIU5
[456]
[137]
China Wuhan CC 1978-79
All
111
No
 
LOMBA2
[457]
[458]
US Boston CC 1960-67
All,Sq,Ad
225
No
 
LOMBAR
[458]
[457,459]
US Boston CC 1951-64
All
1040
No
 
LUBIN
[460]
[460-462]
China Yunnan tin miners CC 1984-88
All,Sq,Ad
427
No
XIANGZ
LUBIN2
[463]
[464-469]
West Europe CC 1976-80
All,Sq,Ad
7804
Yes
 
LUO
[470]
 
China Fuzhou CC 1990-91
All,Sq,Ad
102
Yes
 
MACLEN
[471]
 
Singapore CC 1972-73
All
233
No
 
MAGNUS
[472]
[473]
Norway nickel workers cohort 1953-93
All
203
No
 
MARSH
[474]
 
US Arizona 6 smelter town CC 1979-90
All
150
No
 
MARSH2
[475]
 
US Arizona 4 smelter town CC 1979-90
All
114
No
 
MARTIS
[476]
 
UK Tyneside asbestos CC 1972-73
All
201
No
 
MASTRA
[477]
 
Italy silica CC 1973-80
All
309
No
 
MATOS
[478]
 
Argentina Buenos Aires CC 1994-96
All,Sq,Ad
200
No
 
MATSUD
[479]
[330]
Japan Osaka CC 1965
All,Sq,Ad
179
No
 
MCCONN
[480]
 
UK Liverpool CC 1946-49
All
100
Yes
 
MCDUFF
[481]
 
Canada Saskatchewan CC 1979-83
All
165
No
 
MCLAUG
[482]
 
China 5 region silica workers CC 1972-89
All
316
No
 
MIGRAN
[483]
[484,485]
UK British part of migrant cohort 1964-77
All
259
No
 
MILLER
[486]
 
US Erie County CC 1972-84
All
168
No
 
MILLS
[487]
 
US Ohio CC 1940-47
All
444
No
 
MOLLO
[488]
 
Italy Turin CC 1982-92
All,Sq,Ad
145
Yes
 
MRFIT
[489]
[490]
US MRFIT initial screening cohort 1973-82
All
2004
No
 
MRFITR
[489]
[490-492]
US MRFIT randomized subjects cohort 1973-85
All
119
No
MRFIT
MURATA
[493]
 
Japan Chiba gastric screen nested CC 1984-93
All
107
No
 
MZILEN
[494]
 
South Africa Northern Province black people CC
All
374
No
 
NAM
[495]
 
US National Mortality Followback 1986
All
1199
No
 
NOTAN2
[496]
[497]
India Tata Memorial Hospital CC 1963-71
All
683
No
 
NOTANI
[498]
 
India Tata Memorial Hospital CC 1986-90
All
246
No
 
NOU
[499]
 
Sweden Uppsala CC 1971-76
All,Sq,Ad
273
No
 
ODRISC
[500]
[501]
UK Salford Bronchoscopy Database CC
All
446
No
 
ORMOS
[502]
 
Hungary Szeged CC 1947-59
All,Sq,Ad
119
Yes
 
OSANN
[503]
 
US Orange Co. Cancer Surveillance CC 1984-86
All,Sq,Ad
1986
No
 
OSANN2
[504]
[505]
US California Kaiser nested CC 1969-77
All,Sq,Ad
217
Yes
KAISER
PARKIN
[506]
 
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Bulawayo CC 1963-77
All
877
No
 
PASTOR
[507]
 
Italy Lombardy CC 1976-79
All
204
No
 
PAWLEG
[508]
 
Poland Cracow CC 1992-94
All
176
Yes
 
PERNU
[509]
 
Finland CC 1944-58
All
1606
No
 
PERSH2
[510]
 
Sweden 109 municipality CC 1980-84
All
1022
No
 
PETO
[511]
 
UK FEV cohort 1954-81
All
103
No
 
PEZZO2
[512]
 
Argentina Rosario CC 1992-98
All
367
Yes
 
PEZZOT
[513]
 
Argentina Rosario CC 1987-91
All,Sq,Ad
215
Yes
 
PIKE
[514]
 
US California LA County air poll. CC 1972-75
All
731
No
 
PISANI
[515]
[87]
Italy Lombardy diet CC 1980-81
All
417
No
LUBIN2
POFFIJ
[516]
[517]
West Europe Ardennes-Eifel radon CC 1990-95
All
971
No
 
POLEDN
[518]
 
US Toxic waste dumpsite CC 1978-81
All
209
No
 
PRESCO
[519]
[520]
Denmark 3 Copenhagen cohort studies pooled 1964-93
All,Sq,Ad
867
No
HEIN, LANGE
QIAO
[521]
[522,523]
China Yunnan tin miners CC 1985
All
107
No
XIANGZ
QIAO2
[524]
 
China Yunnan tin miners cohort 1992-95
All
241
No
 
RACHTA
[525]
 
Poland Cracow CC 1991-94
All
118
Yes
 
RADZIK
[526]
 
Poland lung cancer relatives CC 1986-87
All
189
No
 
RANDIG
[527]
 
Germany Berlin CC 1951-54
All
448
No
 
REN
[137]
 
China CC
All
244
No
 
RESTRE
[528]
 
Colombia CC 1978-80
All
102
No
 
RIMING
[529]
 
UK Mass radiography cohort 1970-76
All
104
No
 
RONCO
[530]
 
Italy Turin CC 1976-80
All
126
No
 
ROOTS
[531]
 
Germany Berlin debrisoquine CC
All
270
Yes
CASCOR
ROTHSC
[532]
 
US Southern Louisiana CC 1971-77
All
284
No
 
SAARIK
[533]
 
Finland genetics CC 1988-96
All,Sq,Ad
205
Yes
 
SADOWS
[534]
 
US National Cancer Institute CC 1938-43
All
477
No
 
SANKAR
[535]
 
India Trivandrum diet CC 1990
All
281
No
 
SCHWAR
[536]
[537]
US Michigan CC 1984-87
All,Sq,Ad
5588
Yes
 
SEGI
[538]
 
Japan nationwide CC 1948-52
All
159
No
 
SEGI2
[539]
 
Japan Tokyo and Sendai CC 1962-70
All,Sq,Ad
378
No
 
SEOW
[540]
 
Singapore NAT2 CC 1997-98
All,Sq,Ad
153
Yes
 
SHAW
[541]
 
US & Canada Bethesda/Quebec debrisoquine CC 1988-92
All
335
Yes
 
SHIMIZ
[542]
 
Japan Sendai Kosei Hospital CC 1977-82
All,Sq,Ad
751
No
 
SIEMIA
[543]
[544-547]
Canada Montreal occupational CC 1979-85
All,Sq,Ad
857
Yes
 
SIMARA
[548]
 
Thailand Chiang Mai CC 1971-72
All
115
No
 
SITAS
[549]
 
South Africa Johannesburg black people CC −1997
All
*
No
 
SOBUE
[550]
[551,552]
Japan Osaka CC 1986-88
All,Sq,Ad
1376
Yes
 
SOBUE2
[553]
 
Japan Osaka CC 1965-83
All,Sq,Ad
2083
No
 
SPEIZE
[554]
[555]
US Nurses' Health cohort 1976-92
All
593
Yes
 
SPITZ
[556]
[557-566]
US Texas University Genetics
All
177
Yes
 
STASZE
[567]
 
Poland Gliwice CC 1954-58
All,Sq,Ad
281
Yes
 
STAYNE
[568]
[569]
US Third National Cancer Survey CC 1969-71
All,Sq,Ad
420
No
 
STOCKS
[570]
[571,572]
UK British Empire Cancer Campaign CC 1952-55
All
2932
No
 
STOCKW
[573]
 
US Florida phosphate mining area CC 1981-83
All
22161
No
 
STUCKE
[574]
 
France GSTM1 CC 1989-92
All
247
Yes
 
SUN
[575]
 
China Liaoning genetics CC 1992-94
All
207
Yes
 
SUZUK2
[576]
[577]
Brazil Rio de Janeiro CC 1991-92
All,Sq,Ad
123
Yes
 
SUZUKI
[578]
 
Japan Osaka CC 1978-86
Ad
238
Yes
 
SVENSS
[579]
[580,581]
Sweden Stockholm County CC 1983-86
All,Sq,Ad
210
No
 
TANG
[582]
[583]
US Columbia Presbyterian genetics CC
All
119
Yes
 
TANG2
[584]
 
UK 4 cohort studies pooled 1967-90
All
836
No
BENSHL, HOLE, WALD
TAO
[585]
 
China Shanghai CC 1988-90
All
723
No
 
TENKAN
[586]
[587-591]
Finland part Finland/Norway cohort 1962-87
All
242
No
 
TIZZAN
[592]
 
Italy CC 1959-61
All,Sq,Ad
1358
No
 
TOKARS
[593]
[594-597]
Russia Nuclear Workers nested CC 1966-91
All,Sq,Ad
162
Yes
 
TOUSEY
[598]
 
US Duval County CC 1993-96
All
507
Yes
 
TSUGAN
[599]
 
Japan National Cancer Centre CC 1976-85
All,Sq,Ad
134
Yes
 
TULINI
[600]
 
Iceland Rejkjavik cohort 1967-95
All
472
No
 
TVERDA
[601]
 
Norway cohort 1972-88
All
238
No
 
ULMER
[602]
 
Germany Bochum CC 1971-75
All
726
No
 
VEIERO
[603]
 
Norway Health Screening cohort 1977-91
All
153
No
TVERDA
VUTUC
[604]
[604-620]
Austria CC 1976-80
All,Sq,Ad
1877
No
LUBIN2
WAKAI
[621]
 
Japan Okinawa CC 1988-91
All,Sq,Ad
333
Yes
 
WALD
[622]
 
UK BUPA cohort 1975-93
All
102
No
 
WANG
[623]
 
China Guangdong CC 1990-93
All,Sq,Ad
390
Yes
 
WANG2
[624]
[137,139]
China Tai Yuan CC 1980-82
All
103
No
 
WANG3
[137]
[139,625]
China Nanjing CC
All
293
No
 
WANG4
[626]
 
China Xuanwei farmers cohort 1976-96
All
1170
No
 
WARSIN
[442]
 
Netherlands CC
All
134
No
 
WATSON
[627]
[628]
US New York Memorial Hospital CC 1950-52
All
301
Yes
 
WICKLU
[629]
 
US Washington County orchardists CC 1968-80
All
155
No
 
WIGLE
[630]
 
Canada Alberta CC 1971-73
All
728
No
 
WILKIN
[631]
 
UK London Chest Hospital CC 1992-93
All
271
No
 
WU
[632]
 
US California LA County CC 1981-82
All,Sq,Ad
220
Yes
 
WU2
[633]
 
US California LA County CC 1983-86
Ad
336
Yes
 
WUNSCH
[634]
[635]
Brazil Sao Paulo CC study 1990-91
All
398
No
 
WUWILL
[636]
[137,139,637-640]
China Shenyang and Harbin CC study 1985-87
All,Sq,Ad
965
No
 
WYNDE2
[641]
[642-644]
US New York CC study 1962-64
All,Sq,Ad
404
Yes
 
WYNDE3
[645]
 
US New York Memorial CC study 1966-69
All,Sq,Ad
350
Yes
 
WYNDE4
[2]
[646]
US 8 state CC study 1948-50
All,Sq,Ad
684
No
 
WYNDE5
[647]
[648]
US 4 city CC study 1969-76
All,Sq,Ad
1365
Yes
WYNDE6
WYNDE6l
[649]
[644,650-677]
US 4 city CC study 1969-96
All,Sq,Ad
4423
Yes
 
WYNDE7
[676]
 
US 6 city CC study 1977-84
All,Sq,Ad
2085
Yes
WYNDE6
WYNDE8
[677]
 
US 4 city CC study 1985-90
All,Sq,Ad
1044
Yes
WYNDE6
WYNDER
[678]
 
Cuba Havana CC study 1956-57
All
120
No
 
XIANGZ
[679]
 
China Yunnan tin miners cohort study 1976-87
All
983
No
 
XU
[637]
[137,139,638,639]
China Shenyang CC study 1985-87
All,Sq,Ad
729
No
 
XU2
[680]
[639]
China Anshan Iron-Steel workers CC study 1987-93
All
610
No
 
XU3
[681]
[137]
China Tianjin CC study 1981
All, Sq, Ad
135
No
 
XU4
[137]
[682]
China 26 city air pollution CC study
All
206
No
 
YAMAGU
[683]
 
Japan occupational CC study 1989-90
All
144
Yes
 
YONG
[684]
[260]
US NHANES I - NHEFS cohort study 1971-92
All
216
No
 
YUAN
[685]
 
China Shanghai cohort study 1986-93
All
142
No
 
ZHANG
[686]
[137]
China Jinzhou CC study 1988-89
All
100
No
 
ZHENG
[687]
[137,139,688]
China Shanghai CC study 1982-84
All,Sq,Ad
540
Yes
 
ZHOU [689]   China Medical Univ CC study 1978-94 All,Sq,Ad 1360 No  

a CC = case–control, date range for cohort study is from start at baseline interview to end of follow-up.

b Indicates whether the study provided data for all lung cancer (All), squamous cell carcinoma (Sq) or adenocarcinoma (Ad), or a near equivalent definition (see Methods).

c Number of lung cancer cases.

d Whether or not full histological confirmation of cases was carried out.

e For subsidiary studies, this column shows the relevant principal study.

f Additional sources were two unpublished reports made available by personal communication from P N Lee.

g Additional sources were two unpublished reports made available by personal communication from Dr E C Hammond.

h An additional source was an unpublished report made available by personal communication from Dr G Dean.

i An additional source was an unpublished report made available by personal communication from Dr J Peto.

j An additional source was an unpublished report made available by personal communication from Dr T Hirayama.

k An additional source was an unpublished report made available by personal communication from Dr V Hawthorne.

l An additional source was an unpublished report made available by personal communication from Dr G C Kabat.