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Occupational female breast and reproductive cancer mortality in British Columbia, Canada, 1950-94

MacArthur, A. C., Le, N. D., Abanto, Z. U., Gallagher, R. P.·2007·Occupational Medicine
DOI 10.1093/occmed/kqm002
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BACKGROUND: It has been postulated that recent increases in female breast and reproductive cancers may be, in part, attributable to occupational exposures. AIM: We aimed to identify occupational associations with female breast and reproductive cancer mortality among women living in British Columbia (BC), Canada. METHODS: Case-control methods were used to calculate mortality odds ratios for occupation and cause of death information obtained from the provincial death registry. Cases included women 20 years of age or older who died from breast or reproductive cancer between 1950 and 1994 and resident in BC, Canada. Controls were randomly selected from non-cancer deaths, matched according to age at death and year of death. In a subsequent, stratified analysis, we also identified changes over time to breast and reproductive cancer mortality among each worker group. RESULTS: There was excess mortality from breast and ovarian cancer among teachers, nurses, secretaries, librarians, retail sales clerks and religious workers. An elevated risk of breast cancer mortality was also found among professionals employed as owners, managers and government officials, financial saleswomen, scientists, physicians, medical and dental technicians and accountants. Secretaries, telephone operators and musicians were at increased risk of death from endometrial cancer. Cervical cancer mortality was not significantly increased for any occupational classification. CONCLUSIONS: Our study was aimed primarily at hypothesis generation. More systematic reviews, including cancer registry studies, will prove useful for confirming the relationships we have observed, including a possible increase in the risk of breast and ovarian cancer mortality among women employed in professional occupations.

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Authors
MacArthur, A. C., Le, N. D., Abanto, Z. U., & Gallagher, R. P.
Affiliations
BC Cancer Agency (CA)
ORCID
Venue
Occupational Medicine
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2007-04-16
Volume
57
Issue
4
Pages
246-253
ISSN
  • 0962-7480 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-8405
DOI
10.1093/occmed/kqm002
OpenAlex
W2126252120
Cited by
42
References
54
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2023: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 4
FWCI
1.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Occupational Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › BRCA gene mutations in cancer
Keywords
breast cancer mortality, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, occupational exposure, women's occupations, professions, secretaries, teachers, nurses, British Columbia
MeSH terms
Adult, Breast Neoplasms, British Columbia, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Female, Genital Neoplasms, Female, Humans, Occupational Diseases, Occupations, Ovarian Neoplasms, Risk Factors, Case-Control Studies, Endometrial Neoplasms

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MacArthur, A. C., Le, N. D., Abanto, Z. U., & Gallagher, R. P. (2007). Occupational female breast and reproductive cancer mortality in British Columbia, Canada, 1950-94. Occupational Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqm002

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