Sputum cytologic atypia predicts incident lung cancer: defining latency and histologic specificity

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention : a Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Tim ByersT C Kennedy

Abstract

There is a need for early detection methods for lung cancer. Radiologic imaging may be more sensitive for peripheral cancers than for cancers arising in the central airways, from which bronchial epithelial cells are exfoliated into the sputum. Sputum samples were collected at baseline and periodically thereafter in a cohort of smokers and former smokers with chronic obstructive lung disease. The association between cytologic atypia and incident lung cancer was assessed by hazard ratios (HR; 95% confidence intervals) using Cox regression and by odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) using logistic regression, adjusting for potential confounding factors. We observed 174 incident lung cancers in a cohort of 2,521 people over 9,869 person-years of observation. Risk for incident lung cancer was increased among those with cytologic atypia graded as moderate or worse (adjusted HR, 2.37; 1.68-3.34). The association between sputum atypia and lung cancer incidence was greatest for those sputum samples collected 5 months or less before the diagnosis of lung cancer (odds ratio, 10.32; 5.34-19.97). The association was substantially stronger for squamous cell lung cancers (HR, 5.13; 2.89-9.10) than for adenocarcinomas (HR, 1.85; 0.94-3.65). ...Continue Reading

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