Brain Cancer Risk
Factors: Sun Exposure and/or Smoking?
Amin
GED (a), Abou Seif HA (a) , Abd Elaziz KM (a) and Allam MF (a,b)
a.
Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of
Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
b.
Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University,
Cairo, Egypt
Journal of Community
Medicine and Health Research 2020;2(1):120.
Abstract
Background:
An ecological study was conducted to evaluate the associations among brain
cancer, cutaneous malignant melanoma and lung cancer in 40 European countries. Methods:
Incidence rates were obtained from the database of the International Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC) 2012. We analyzed age-adjusted and gender-stratified
incidence rates for cutaneous malignant melanoma, lung cancer and brain cancer
in 40 European countries that had registration systems that fulfilled the IARC
quality criteria. Before calculating the correlations among cutaneous malignant
melanoma, lung cancer and brain cancer, the normal distribution of the
variables was examined using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Results: There was no
significant correlation between the overall rates (males and females combined)
of cutaneous malignant melanoma and lung cancer (r=0.128; P=0.4), cutaneous
malignant melanoma and brain cancer (r=-0.045; P=0.7), or brain cancer and lung
cancer (r= 0.229; P=0.1). Conclusion: Brain cancer had no positive correlation
with cutaneous malignant melanoma or lung cancer, rejecting the hypothesis that
sun exposure and smoking could be risk factors for brain cancer. New analytical
and genetic studies are needed to identify the risk factors for brain cancer.
Keywords:
Epidemiology; Ecological; Brain Cancer; Melanoma; Lung Cancer
Citation:
Amin GED, Abou Seif HA, Abd Elaziz KM, Allam MF (2020). Brain Cancer Risk
Factors: Sun Exposure and/or Smoking?. J Community Med Health Res 2(1): 120
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