Evidence of a paradoxical relationship between endotoxin and lung cancer after accounting for left truncation in a study of Chinese female textile workers

Katie M Applebaum; Roberta M Ray; George Astrakianakis; Dao Li Gao; David B Thomas; David C Christiani; Michael P LaValley; Wenjin Li; Harvey Checkoway; Ellen A Eisen

doi:10.1136/oemed-2012-101240

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Evidence of a paradoxical relationship between endotoxin and lung cancer after accounting for left truncation in a study of Chinese female textile workers

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Katie M Applebaum Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Roberta M Ray Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
George Astrakianakis School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dao Li Gao Zhong Shan Hospital Cancer Center, Shanghai, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David B Thomas Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David C Christiani Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael P LaValley Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Wenjin Li Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Harvey Checkoway Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ellen A Eisen Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Katie M Applebaum, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St., T322E, Boston, MA 02118, USA; kappleba{at}bu.edu

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Applebaum KM, Ray RM, Astrakianakis G, et al

Evidence of a paradoxical relationship between endotoxin and lung cancer after accounting for left truncation in a study of Chinese female textile workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2013;70:709-715.

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Received October 18, 2012
Revised April 11, 2013
Accepted May 16, 2013
First published June 12, 2013.

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