Silke Hermann, Sabine Rohrmann, Jakob Linseisen, Alexandra Nieters, Aneire Khan, Valentina Gallo, Kim Overvad, Anne Tjønneland, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Manuela M Bergmann, Heiner Boeing, Nikolaus Becker, Rudolf Kaaks, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Anne M May, Roel C H Vermeulen, Sheila Bingham, Kay-Tee Khaw, Timothy J Key, Ruth C Travis, Antonia Trichopoulou, Christina Georgila, Dimitra Triantafylou, Egidio Celentano, Vittorio Krogh, Giovanna Masala, Rosario Tumino, Antonio Agudo, Jone M Altzibar, Eva Ardanaz, Carmen Martínez-García, Marcial Vicente Argüelles Suárez, Maria José Tormo, Tonje Braaten, Eiliv Lund, Jonas Manjer, Sophia Zackrisson, Göran Hallmans, Beatrice Malmer, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Nadia Slimani, Paolo Vineis, Elio Riboli
INTRODUCTION: Lymphomas belong to the few cancer sites with increasing incidence over past decades, and only a few risk factors have been established. We explored the association between education and the incidence of lymphoma in the prospective EPIC study. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Within 3,567,410 person-years of follow-up, 1,319 lymphoma cases [1,253 non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) and 66 Hodgkin lymphomas (HL)] were identified. Cox proportional hazard regression was used to examine the association between highest educational level (primary school or less, technical/professional school, secondary school, university) and lymphoma risk...
January 2010: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology