ZIA CP010121-10349 (ZIA) | |||
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Title | A Hospital-based Case-Control Study of Non-smoking Women in Xuan Wei and Fu Yu | ||
Institution | NCI, Bethesda, MD | ||
Principal Investigator | Lan, Qing | NCI Program Director | N/A |
Cancer Activity | N/A | Division | DCEG |
Funded Amount | $79,862 | Project Dates | 00/00/0000 - 00/00/0000 |
Fiscal Year | 2017 | Project Type | Intramural |
Research Topics w/ Percent Relevance | Cancer Types w/ Percent Relevance | ||
Basic Behavioral and Social Science (50.0%) Behavioral and Social Science (50.0%) Biochemical Epidemiology (45.0%) Cancer (100.0%) |
Lung (100.0%) | ||
Research Type | |||
Exogenous Factors in the Origin and Cause of Cancer Endogenous Factors in the Origin and Cause of Cancer |
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Abstract | |||
"""Females in Xuan Wei County are almost all non-smokers, yet they have the highest lung cancer rate in China. Non-smoking women in Xuan Wei who use smoky coal in their home can inhale ten-times higher levels of PAHs than a 20 cigarette per day active smoker, and air concentrations approach levels experienced by workers on the top-side of coke ovens. Several lines of research have provided strong support that the excess lung cancer in this region is caused primarily by PAHs derived from smoky coal exposure. This region of China provides one of the best opportunities in the world to carry out a model study of gene-environment interactions in lung cancer. We have designed a hospital-based case-control study of 1000 lung cancer cases and 1000 controls among non-smoking women. The study will be carried out over a four-year period in Xuan Wei and Fu Yuan Counties in Yun Nan Province, China. In addition, we will be carrying out an exposure assessment study (n=150 households) to evaluate air and dermal exposure to PAHs from smoky coal use in order to model PAH exposure experienced by subjects in the case-control study. We will collect buccal cell, sputum, blood, and urine samples from all subjects. The primary goal of the study is to characterize genetic risk factors at the DNA level for lung cancer in this population and determine how they interact with smoky coal and PAH exposure. In addition, the hospital-based design will enable us to collect venous blood samples and cryopreserve lymphocytes, which will allow us to carry out state-of-the-art functional susceptibility assays such as testing ability to repair PAH-damaged DNA and apoptotic capacity, and to measure integrative markers of genomic stability such as telomere length and oxidative damage in mitochondrial DNA. This study will provide an important complement to and contrast with both DCEG and extramural studies of tobacco smoking and lung cancer." |