Title |
Breast cancer risk in relation to occupations with exposure to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors: a Canadian case–control study
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Published in |
Environmental Health, November 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1476-069x-11-87 |
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Authors |
James T Brophy, Margaret M Keith, Andrew Watterson, Robert Park, Michael Gilbertson, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Matthias Beck, Hakam Abu-Zahra, Kenneth Schneider, Abraham Reinhartz, Robert DeMatteo, Isaac Luginaah |
Abstract |
Endocrine disrupting chemicals and carcinogens, some of which may not yet have been classified as such, are present in many occupational environments and could increase breast cancer risk. Prior research has identified associations with breast cancer and work in agricultural and industrial settings. The purpose of this study was to further characterize possible links between breast cancer risk and occupation, particularly in farming and manufacturing, as well as to examine the impacts of early agricultural exposures, and exposure effects that are specific to the endocrine receptor status of tumours. |
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Canada | 13 | 21% |
United Kingdom | 8 | 13% |
United States | 5 | 8% |
Thailand | 4 | 6% |
Belgium | 1 | 2% |
Spain | 1 | 2% |
Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
Sweden | 1 | 2% |
Mexico | 1 | 2% |
Other | 2 | 3% |
Unknown | 26 | 41% |
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Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 8% |
Scientists | 4 | 6% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 5% |
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United States | 6 | 3% |
France | 2 | <1% |
Australia | 1 | <1% |
Denmark | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 214 | 95% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 12% |
Student > Master | 24 | 11% |
Researcher | 23 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 7% |
Other | 46 | 20% |
Unknown | 53 | 24% |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 10% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 7% |
Environmental Science | 13 | 6% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 5% |
Other | 47 | 21% |
Unknown | 71 | 32% |