TY - JOUR
T1 - Smoking behavior among adult childhood cancer survivors
T2 - what are we missing?
AU - Asfar, Taghrid
AU - Dietz, Noella
AU - Arheart, Kristopher
AU - Tannenbaum, Stacey L.
AU - McClure, Laura A.
AU - Fleming, Lora E
AU - Lee, David J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this study was provided by the Bankhead Coley Cancer Research grant 1BG06-341963 (P.I. Dr. Lee); European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund to the University of Exeter Medical School (PI Dr Fleming).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Purpose: Childhood cancer survivors are a growing population at increased risk for smoking-related health complications. This study compared smoking prevalence, age at smoking initiation, and time trend of smoking prevalence from 1997 to 2010 between adult survivors of childhood cancer and adults without a cancer history (controls) and identified predictors of smoking among these survivors. Methods: Data were pooled from the 1997–2010 National Health Interview Survey (survivors, n = 1438; controls, n = 383,805). Smoking prevalence by age group was calculated using weighted least square regression analysis and weighted linear regression of prevalence on year for trend analysis. Logistic regression analyses adjusting for sample weights and design effects were performed to identify predictors of smoking among survivors. Results: Compared to controls, survivors were significantly more likely to be younger, female, non-Hispanic White, unemployed, with lower income, and to weigh less and smoke more. Survivors initiated smoking earlier than controls. Smoking prevalence among survivors peaked at age 30 and 40 years old, compared to age 25 years in controls. Smoking prevalence decreased consistently from 1997 to 2010 among controls, with larger significant declines in survivors that were subject to more year-to-year variability. Compared to nonsmoking survivors, those who smoke were significantly more likely to be non-Hispanic White, young, uninsured, poor, to have a high school education or less, and to report drinking alcohol. Conclusion: Smoking in adult survivors of childhood cancer continues as a persistent risk factor across socioeconomic groups. Implications for Cancer Survivors: Targeted and tailored smoking cessation/prevention interventions for these survivors are needed.
AB - Purpose: Childhood cancer survivors are a growing population at increased risk for smoking-related health complications. This study compared smoking prevalence, age at smoking initiation, and time trend of smoking prevalence from 1997 to 2010 between adult survivors of childhood cancer and adults without a cancer history (controls) and identified predictors of smoking among these survivors. Methods: Data were pooled from the 1997–2010 National Health Interview Survey (survivors, n = 1438; controls, n = 383,805). Smoking prevalence by age group was calculated using weighted least square regression analysis and weighted linear regression of prevalence on year for trend analysis. Logistic regression analyses adjusting for sample weights and design effects were performed to identify predictors of smoking among survivors. Results: Compared to controls, survivors were significantly more likely to be younger, female, non-Hispanic White, unemployed, with lower income, and to weigh less and smoke more. Survivors initiated smoking earlier than controls. Smoking prevalence among survivors peaked at age 30 and 40 years old, compared to age 25 years in controls. Smoking prevalence decreased consistently from 1997 to 2010 among controls, with larger significant declines in survivors that were subject to more year-to-year variability. Compared to nonsmoking survivors, those who smoke were significantly more likely to be non-Hispanic White, young, uninsured, poor, to have a high school education or less, and to report drinking alcohol. Conclusion: Smoking in adult survivors of childhood cancer continues as a persistent risk factor across socioeconomic groups. Implications for Cancer Survivors: Targeted and tailored smoking cessation/prevention interventions for these survivors are needed.
KW - Childhood cancer survivors
KW - Predictors of current smoking
KW - Smoking initiation
KW - Smoking prevalence
KW - Smoking trends
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U2 - 10.1007/s11764-015-0459-6
DO - 10.1007/s11764-015-0459-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 26031234
AN - SCOPUS:84953638877
VL - 10
SP - 131
EP - 141
JO - Journal of Cancer Survivorship
JF - Journal of Cancer Survivorship
SN - 1932-2259
IS - 1
ER -