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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 May 1;29(7):1406–1412. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0015

Table 3.

Adjusteda associations of current and former smoking and demographic factors with kidney cancer histology, data only from year and registry combinations with <25% cigarette smoking data missing.

Adjusteda prevalence ratio relative to clear cellb (95% CI; P)

Histologyc Current cigarette smokers Former cigarette smokers Never smokers

Papillary 1.12 (1.04–1.20) [0.002] 0.97 (0.92–1.01) [0.166] Referent
Chromophobe 0.58 (0.50–0.67) [<0.001] 0.88 (0.81–0.95) [0.002] Referent
Cyst-associated 1.17 (0.86–1.60) [0.326] 0.98 (0.76–1.26) [0.880] Referent
Collecting duct/medullary 1.09 (0.68–1.73) [0.723] 1.25 (0.95–1.65) [0.107] Referent
Unclassified 1.10 (1.04–1.17) [0.001] 0.93 (0.89–0.97) [<0.001] Referent
a

Adjusted for age, sex, and race/ethnicity.

b

Clear cell RCC was chosen as the referent histologic category because it is the most common.

c

This table contains results from individual models for papillary RCC, chromophobe RCC, cyst-associated RCC, collecting duct/medullary carcinoma, and unclassified RCC.