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Gan No Rinsho 34(1)s 21-27; January, 1988
EFFECT OF PASStVE SMOKIn 15 LUDiG CANCER flEpELOFMEN'f IN WOMEN
IN TFiE NARA REGION
By H. Katada, R. Mikami, M. Konishi, Y. Koydma,
ard N. Narita
Second Department of Internal Medicine,
Nara F'refecturaS Medical Bniversity
Trinalation from Japanese

EFFECT OF PASSIVE SMOKING ZN'LG7NG CANCER DEVELOPMENT IN WOMEN IN THE NARA REGION
Hitoshi Katada, Riichiro Mikami, Mitsuru Konishi, Yasuhiro Koyama and Nobuhiro Narita
Second Department of lnternal Medicine, Nara Prefectural Medical University
Introduction
It is becoming noticeable in Japan that with increased incidence of lung
cancer, there has been an increase in pulmonary carcinoma in women. Active smoking
by women is increasing, while concern over passive smoking has been intensifying,
and the effect of passive smoking on carcinogenesis has become a social problem.
Regarding this effect, immunological and public health reports have appeared in
Japan, but there have been few clinical reports, and detailed analysis of patients
has been inadequate. Lung cancer presents a variegated histological picture, and
presumably there are different carcinogenic factors for different histological types,
although there have also been few reports on this subject. The effect of passive
smoking probably varies depending on the regional environment and custom, and these
factors should also be analyzed and included in the investigation. The present
report describes our findings regarding the effects of smoking and familial aggre-
gation of cancer in cases of pulmonary carcinoma in women.
1. Subjects and Method
1) Subj'ects
The subjects were 25 women with lung cancer who were admitted to our depart-
ment. They averaged 67.518.8 years of age. Based on histology there were 7 cases of
squamous cell carcinoma, 5 of small cell carcinoma and 13 of adenocarcinoma. The
age averages for the above groups were 71.4t?.8, 66.2t9.3 and 65.8±9.01years, re-
spectively. As controls, 50 cases of non,-malignant hospitalized patients matched for
sex and age (within 2 years)' were selected. Their age average was 67.6±8.5 years.
2) Items of examination
To gather data on active and passive smoking (current and past) and familial
accumulation of cancer, detailed questioning was conducted regarding personal his-
tory, concomitant disease, exposure to atmospheric pollution, stress, occupation,
obesity, alcohol consumption and other items with the patient herself and with the
family. Passive smoking was defined as exposure to smoking store or lesa daily through
living with a smoker, and'tho amount was defined as the number of cigarettes smoked
by the smoker each day multiplied by the number of years of expo9ure. F'amilial, accu-
mulation was based on occurrence or abaence of malignancy in relatives to the 3d
degree. Comparison with controls was made on the basis of significance of difference
and relative risk regarding smoking and familial factors for each histologic type
of tumor. Squamous cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma which are regarded as

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having an intimate relation to smoking were grouped together.
2. Results
1) Squamous cell carcinoma (Table 1)
There were 4 patients who were active smokers out of 7. Passive smoking was
experienced in all, but 6 were currently exposed while 5 had a history of exposure.
Three reported exposure at an early age. Familial accumulation was observed in 4
cases, of which 3 were lung cancer, a high incidence, while 2 were gastric cancer.
General history included one case of ovari'ectomy and 2 cases of ulcer of the diges-
tive tract. Four had experienced atmospheric pollution and 3 reported stress. Inn
the 3 non-smokers (cases 5, 6 and 7), passive smoking and familial cancer both
occurred. These patients were the most elderly.
2) Small cell carcinoma (Table 1)
Four of 5 were active smokers. Passive smoking occurred in all 5, these all
being exposed currently, while one case had a history of passive smoking and one
could not be determined regarding this information. Familial accumulation was found
in 4 cases, 3 being cases of gastric cancer, a high incidence. As for personal
history, there was one case each of uterine cancer and hysterectomy and one case
of breast cancer. Exposure to atmospheric pollution occurred in 2 and stress in 4.
In the one non-smoker (case 5) there was intense passive smoking. The individual
had a history of surgery for breast cancer, and her two younger sisters had had
breast cancer and uterine cancer (individually). This group of patients averaged.
5 years younger than the cases of squamous cell carcinoma.
3) Adenocarcinoma (Table Z)
There was not a single active smoker out of 13, but all had been exposed to /
passive smoking, 12 out of 13 being currently expoeed: There were 10 out of 11 ~
who had a history of passive smoking. 8 since early childhood. Familial incidence
of cancer was present in 11 out of 13, two being lung cancer, 7 gastric cancer,
4 eaophageal cancer and 2 colon cancer. Three had uterine fibroid and 1 had under-
gone hysterectomy. There were 2 cases of respiratory disease. Exposure to atmospher-
ic pollution occurred in 5, and stress in 4. In 11 out of 13 there was passive
smoking along with familial cancer. In the other two there was intense passive smok-
ing in one and passive steoking plus pulaiosiary tuberculosis in the other.
4) Controlled studies (Tables 3, 4 and 5)
Regarding passive smoking (Table 3), there was a oignificant difference,,
between lung cancer cases and controls %n the amount of exposure (p<0.05), although r-
no definite difference could be observed according to tumor ceLl typit xhen the
cases were grouped into those who had been exposed up to the present time, those
who had been exposed in the past and those who had been exposed since early ch5.ldhood,

Table 1. Squamous cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma of the lung in women.
A. Squamous cell carcinoma.
ova
~
t. T. O. 78
2. NI. R. 57
3. Y. O. 70
4.. K. S. 70
~
S. T. Y. 68
8. T, g. 79
t. K. Y. 18
v ~ E Passive
L a{ smoking
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500
son
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853
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cigs ciga Yn~ LC) hand ;nduatry
sister
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-. son 1.eQ0 , husb4S0 (CC_) hypo- angina + broker +
cigs ° cigs _ -tension: pectorLa -
-
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son t00 oose tob of - ~ wife -
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Table 1. (con't) B. Small cell carcinoma (women)
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A. Adenocarcin^rna
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the greatest influence was found to be that of present exposure, with a sig- e."7
nificant (p C 0.05) difterance from the controls.9Some differences were also seen
in cases of all lung cancers and of adenocarcinoma who had history of passive
smoking.
Among active smokers (Table 4), there was no difference between the lung cancer
group and controls, but the combined number of cases of squamous cell carcinoma
and small cell carcinoma was significantly (p < 0.01) higher in active smokers
compared with non-active smokers, while the incidencle of adenocarcinoma actually
had a negative correlation with active smoking.
Among passive smokers (Table 4), when compared 1:1 with controls who were
also non-active smokers, no significance was observed in the history of exposure,
overall, present or past, but the ratio was virtually the same as that when active
smokers were included (Table 3). Some difference, however, were observed for over-
all, lung cancer and adenocarcinoma cases with history of past exposure to smoking.
When cumulative family incidence of cancer (Table 5) was investigated,
it was found to create a significant (p<0.001) difference between lung cancer cases
and eontrols, the association being especially strong with adenocarcinoma, indi-
cating that family incidence of cancer was an important factor in this type of
Gancer.
When smoking and familial cancer were combined (Table 5), the results were
not significant with active smoking, but significant with passive smoking. The in-
crease in risk when familial cancer and passive smoking were combined over that
of familial history alone was as follows: All lung cancers + present exposure to
passive smoking, x11.7; all lung cancers + past exposure to passive smoking,
x 10.0; all; lung cancers + active or passive smoking, x17.3; squamous cell carci-
noma + small cell carcinoma + present exposure to passive smoking, x7.0; squamous
cell carcinoma + small cell carcinoma + active or passive smoking, x40.8; and adeno-
carcinoma + past exposi4re to passive smoking, x26.7.
3. Discussion
The question of lung cancer development in non-smokers exposed over 6xtended
periods to smoking by others in the family and at the place of work has become
a social concern not only in the United States but also in Japan.
in the present study, we gathered detailed information on the history of ill-
ness and family background in 25 cases of lung cancer in women, and investigated
the relations among passive smoking, active smoking and familial incidence of cancer.
The subjacts were residents of Nara Prefecture, most of them housewives or women
engaged in farming. The passive smokers in this study were all living with one or
more smokers,therefore presumably exposed to passive smoking daily froM at least

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0
u
.~ u
~
v
~
M D
B.~-~.
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~
Passive smoking (14a) ~ (80) <0.06 13.2 ..
(Total)," 12 (1~) ~ (71) <o. 1 10.7
13 (coo) 23
(es) vs -
Passive smoking ~ (~'--- - ~~(64) ca05 , s:s
(At present) 11 (92) ~ (Sd) co:1 7.9
12 Y3 (91)' ~ (69) <0.1 S.3
~ (73) u (45) , <C.1 . _- 3
2
Passive smoking
(In the past)
7ff (41)
~s .
-
1~ C91) a (50) . <o.,l , 10.0
Passive amoking
(In childhood)
~ 13 (59) ~I
~ il (~) ' 20 (45) i
~ (ll) I NS !
`3 -
-
(73) ~(50) i at$ -
( ) ; Xr. N5: noc .ipsi6canr
Table 3. Passive smoking and lung cancer in wom4n
(contro2led study 1).

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p, .
C~ W
~
X
6 6J ~
.a 0 U .~
F+
d ^a G
.~ C
~ N
C~Y V V M ^' U ~
~
C C .e O
~+ w .
1
b d ~
~ u 0 b
~
5 F. 0 .~
~' p .,,
~ a
,~,~ en+
14 (a~) ' NS -
Active ~(n)
smoki:ag, (+y
~ ~°')
~ (17)
u
8
.o.a1 10.0
4 O:os
0
06
~. ( 0), ~ (3
) .
.
.
~(loo)
Passive
« +.1100)
smoki~ng ~ ca~)
4 (13) NS -
N'5 -
(ac present) 13
(100)
13 (SS)
NS
-
16 .`91,.- _17. `'l)- - NS -
Pass ive 17
smoking .L 1 loo ) ~. (75)
(in the
past)
12 (92)'
ls (~)
NS -
r
Passive ~(~) ~(i7) ea 1
7.4
smoking
(in child-
` (75
)
i (50)
NS -
hood)
il (91)
i (0)
;0.1 : E2.0
( ): X, , \S: soc SigniCuant
Table 4. Passive smoking and lung cancer in women
(controlled study 2).
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u w
1+ a.+ c u an
G c a u w m ~ u
a~
%64 >
ro
~ u
00 ~ e C C u
t
7 F ~ w a!
Cl 'C F
O eS
~ io
. ~
s.+ en + 4 U ~n a
Cumulative (26) <0,001 7.3
familial
cancer
12 (Sb)
i (29)
\~'u
--
~ (a5) ~ (23) <0.OOt 18.7
4
Active smoking + Zs (ts)
familial cancer
I'1
1
~ (o)
i' ~
-'-~
- 2 (a) ys -
Passive smoking
~ (72)
-
~ (le)
C0.0001
11.7
(at present) +
familial cancer
iTl Z. (17)
[t1.05
7.0
10
7
)1, ~ (19)
l3 (7 C0:001 14.0
Passive smoking ~ (SO)' 4 ( 9) <0.A01 10.1
(in the past) +
familial, cancer
i li (27) . -~2 , ( 9)
~S
-
8
73) 2 ( 9 00
0 7
T1- (
)
, <
1 .
26,
Active or passive
i ~ (97) 20 (40) <0.061 17.3
smok
ng +
familial cancer
12(1~) y~ (~)
,<0.005
40.8
(12) ' !0 OS 7.5
C ) : X. NS: na ugniEunnc
Table 5. Familial incidence of cancer and smoking in relationship
to lung cancer in women (Cantrolled atudy 3).

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the evening until the following morning.
It was found that present exposure to passive smoking was more influentiaJl
than past exposure; that active smoking had a fairly marked effect on the develop-
ment of squamous cell carcinoma or small cell carcinoma; and that in these his-
tologic types, current (up to the present time) exposure to passive smoking had
a marked effect. On the other hand, there was virtually no effect of active smoking
on the development of adenocarcinoma,but there was suspicion of the effect of past
or present exposure to smoking in this type of tumor.
The effect of passive smoking should be considered qualitatively and quan-
titatively. In assessing the qualitative effect of passive smoking, the followingg
items should be considered; The amount of carcinogenic material in secondary smoke
is greater tran in the primary smoke1); when ten cigarettes are smoked in 1 hour,
the level of CORb in the blood of the non-smoker rises to about the same concen-
tration as that following the active smoking of one cigarette2);. the amount of
urinary nicotine of a non-smoker increases in parallel to the number of active
smokers generating smoke, demonstrating a dose response effect3);benzpyrene in
the urine of a non-smoker exposed to smoke becomes detectable, and this amount de-
creases when the non-smoker avoids exposure to smoke4) ; upon exposure to smoking
for 6 hours, the amount of mutagens in the urine of a non-smoker increases marked-
lys)s and that mice and dogs exposed to smoke develop lung tumors6). These results
suggest the possibility of lung carcinogenesis through passive smoking.
Quantitative assessment of passive smoking has been presented in the follow-
ing findings: The increase in incidence of lung cancer in non-smoking wives of heavy
cigarette smokers over that in non-smoking wives of non-smokers was x2.08 in Japan
(Hirayama)7), x3.4 in Greece (Trichopoulos)9), x3.1t in the United States (Correa)'0),
x1.94, also in the United States (Miller)11), x12.78 in Kanagawa Prefecture (IInoue)22)
and x1.5-2.1 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Akiba)231. When the findings by Garfinkel
(U.S.) 8) and Koo (Hong Kong)17) are excluded, mortality of non-smoking wives from
lung cancer seems to increase about two-fold. Increase in the risk of passive
smoking in the family is especially marked in non-smoking women under 50 years of
age, while habitual smokers are subject to both active and passive staoking12)
.
Akiba23) found that of vomen who are not exposed to either Active or passive amokiflg, M
develop either adenocarcinoma or large cell carcinomaf that the incidence of these
tumors decreases to 64% in passive stnokers and to 42% in active smokers; and that
in the latter cases there is a proportional increase in squamous cell carcinoma
and small cell carcinoma 23? These are similar to our findings.
In these reports, however, there are no consistent results concerning signi-
ficance or dose response, and there is no unified interpretation at this time.

Some of the explanations for the inconsistencies are the following: (1) Differences
in the living environment, (2) lack of definite information on passive smoking
before marriage, (3) differences between wornen who work outside and those who are
self-employed, (4) duration of periods when husband and wife are together, (5)
smoking habit of the husband and conditions in the home, (7) mealtime habits,
(8) incidence of cancer in the family and (9) age when the cancer developed. The
6,13)
paucity of information on these matters has been pointed out . The present
study was a survey of the Nara region where most women who were the subjeets of
the investigation were self-employed. Information was gathered regarding the his-
tologic type of tumor, time of exposure to smoking, and incidence of cancer in the
family, and although the number of cases was small, a certain degree of control
was exercised. Correa10) studied the relation of lung cancer to past exposure to
passive smoking, and concluded that the effect of smoking by the mother could be
seen in male lung cancer patients but not in1women lung cancer cases.
Extrinsic and intrinsic factors may interact in carcinogenesis. The leading
extrinsic factor in lung cancer is presumably cigarette smoking, while genetic
cancer may be an intrinsic factor. we investigated the history of relatives three
times removed from the principal, and found that with adenocarcinoma there was
a strong indication of association of familial incidence of cancer, while with
squamous cell carcinomz and small cell carcinoma, association of familial incidence
was seen but not to a sigr.ificant degree in comparison with controls. The associa-
tion, however, was observed in 4 out of 5 cases of small~ cell carcinoma while in
squamous cell carcinoma there was more variaaility_ There is need for further study
in larger numbers of cases. In another investigation of familial factor, the risk
of development of lung cancer when there has been a family incidence was 8-fold
over cases without any familial occurrence of lung cancer in Kawasaki City, and
5.9-fold in Tokyo18). Aoki1'9) also pointed out that the risk of cancer of many
organs was 2-3 times higher in families which had cases of cancer than in families
without such history.
Tokuhata2t)
, in a survey of 2701cases of lung cancer, assessed the risk when
familial incidence and active smoking were combined, and found: the following:
Compared with individuals without either factor, the risk for the non-snroker with
familial history was 3.96-fold; for the smoker without familial history it was.
5.45--fold; and for the smoker with familial history it was 13.64-fold. He stated
that when corrected for smoking habit, the risk for those with familial history
was increased 2.5-fold, approximately the same level of risk as that of smoking,
and claimed that the two factors are synergistic.
Zn our present study, the findings indicated that compared with controls,

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passive smoking, current or paet, increased the risk for lung cancer .+her+ familial
history was present. when the data were sorted according to histologic type of lung
cancer, risk was increased for aquamous cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma
when active or passive smoking was combined with familial history, while with adeno-
carcinoma the influence of familial history was considerable, and the effect of
passive smoking in the past was suspected.
Since the number of cases was small and the amount of passive smoking could
not be determined so that dose response could not be demonstrated, no definite con-
clusion could be drawn fron+ the present study, but there was a suggestion that
for women in the Nara region, passive amoking is associated with development of
lung cancer in women. The effect of passive smoking which has continued to the
present time was especially marked, particularly notable in squamous cell carci-
noma and small cell carcinoYna. With adenocareinanap the effect of passive smoking:
in the past was suspected.
Along with passive smoking, the association of some intrinsic factor (gene-
tic tendency) to varying degrees in the different histologic types of lung cancer
in women, especially in adenocarcinoma, was apparent.

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((Received for publ:ication: 5/20/87)
