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@ARTICLE{Hemminki:300095,
author = {K. Hemminki$^*$ and F. Zitricky and K. Sundquist and J.
Sundquist and A. Försti$^*$ and A. Hemminki},
title = {{L}ung cancer risk between maternal and paternal
half-siblings points to main environmental causation and
targets for prevention.},
journal = {Lung cancer},
volume = {202},
issn = {0169-5002},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-00595},
pages = {108500},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Familial risk of lung cancer (LC) is at the level of many
common cancers (ca 2.0) but as cigarette smoking is the main
cause of LC, it has remained undefined to what extent
smoking contributes to the familial risk. We take advantage
of the natural experiment of divorce. In Sweden, it has been
customary that children stay with their mother after
divorce. We thus hypothesize that only maternal
half-siblings share the childhood environment to the same
extent than full siblings.We used Swedish nation-wide data
on family structures and cancers up to year 2021 to
determined LC risk (standardized incidence ratio, SIR with
$95\%$ confidence intervals) in maternal and paternal
half-siblings and in full siblings.Familial risk for LC in
maternal half-siblings was 2.21 (1.76-2.77) which was not
different from that of full siblings 2.23 (2.22-2.44). For
paternal half-siblings the risk was 1.56 (1.21-2.01). For
adenocarcinoma the risks were for full siblings 2.36
(2.23-2.51), for maternal half-siblings 2.55 (1.93-3.35) and
for paternal half-siblings 1.33 (0.94-1.87).The results
showed that familial risk for LC was equal in full siblings
and in maternal half-siblings; the risks for paternal
half-siblings were lower and for adenocarcinoma
significantly lower than those for full siblings. The
results suggest that smoking is a major contributor to
familial risk of LC in this setting. Smoking starts at an
early age and anti-smoking campaigns should target childhood
environment for prevention of smoking initiation.},
keywords = {Adenocarcinoma (Other) / Childhood environment (Other) /
Familial cancer (Other) / Maternal half-sibling (Other)},
cin = {Z999 / B062 / HD01},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)Z999-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)B062-20160331 /
I:(DE-He78)HD01-20160331},
pnm = {312 - Funktionelle und strukturelle Genomforschung
(POF4-312)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-312},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40117846},
doi = {10.1016/j.lungcan.2025.108500},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/300095},
}