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Document ID (ISN)75395
CIS number 00-1317
ISSN - Serial title 1076-2752 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Year 1999
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Band P.R., Spinelli J.J., Threlfall W.J., Fang R., Le N.D., Gallagher R.P.
Title Identification of occupational cancer risks in British Columbia
Bibliographic information Apr. 1999, Vol.41, No.4, p.224-247. Illus. 75 ref.
Abstract To identify occupational cancer risk factors, lifetime occupational, smoking, and alcohol-consumption histories were collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire from 15,463 male cancer patients. The study methodology, descriptive results, and cancer risks from cigarette smoking are reported. Assessment of questionnaire validation and reliability showed very high correlations between all variables analysed. Non-response bias, assessed among 221 non-responders and 432 matched controls, revealed no statistically significant differences for smoking status, education or occupational groups. Except for pancreatic cancer, a significant relationship was found for all cancer sites known to be strongly associated with cigarette smoking. Of the 15,643 incident cancer cases, 1519 had a diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Descriptors (primary) British Columbia; risk factors; cancer; occupational diseases
Descriptors (secondary) alcoholism; smoking; questionnaire survey; prostatic cancer; occupation disease relation
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceCanada
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Alcohol and drug abuse