Abstract C46: Fruit and vegetable intake and lung cancer incidence among Black women according to cigarette smoking status

Objective: The objective of this project was to evaluate associations of fruit and vegetable intake, according to cigarette smoking history, with lung cancer incidence among U.S. Black women. Methods: The Black Women9s Health Study is a prospective cohort study (analytic cohort=46,889) among Black women between the ages 21-69 at baseline (1995). Fruit and vegetable intake (collected in 1995 and 2001only) and smoking history were ascertained via questionnaires at baseline and during follow-up (every other year). Combined fruit and vegetable ( 1 servings/day), and cruciferous vegetable ( 1 servings/day) intakes were evaluated. Cigarette smoking measures that were evaluated include: 1) current smoking status (never, former, current 2 tests were utilized to assess interactions between smoking history and fruit and vegetable intake. Results: More than half the women reported no history of cigarette smoking (66.4%), while 18.4% were former smokers and 15.1% were current smokers ( Conclusion: Low fruit and vegetable intake was widespread in this population of U.S. Black women, but results do not support an association between fruit and vegetable intake and lung cancer incidence, regardless of cigarette smoking history. Citation Format: Sarah JO Nomura, Chiranjeev Dash, Lynn Rosenberg, Julie Palmer, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell. Fruit and vegetable intake and lung cancer incidence among Black women according to cigarette smoking status [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Tenth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2017 Sep 25-28; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2018;27(7 Suppl):Abstract nr C46.