Sugarcane exposure and the risk of lung cancer and mesothelioma

A case-control study was conducted of the risk of lung cancer and mesothelioma from environmental and occupational exposures associated with sugarcane production. A slight, not statistically significant, excess risk of lung cancer was observed among participants who reported working in the sugarcane...

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Published in:Environmental research 1992-08, Vol.58 (1), p.195-203
Main Authors: Brooks, Stuart M., Stockwell, Heather G., Pinkham, Patricia A., Armstrong, Adam W., Witter, Douglas A.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Agricultural Workers' Diseases - epidemiology
Agricultural Workers' Diseases - etiology
Biological and medical sciences
CANA DE AZUCAR
CANNE A SUCRE
CARCINOMA
CARCINOME
Case-Control Studies
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
FIBRAS VEGETALES
FIBRE VEGETALE
FLORIDA
FLORIDE
GROUPE ETHNIQUE
GRUPOS ETNICOS
Humans
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Logistic Models
Lung Neoplasms - epidemiology
Lung Neoplasms - etiology
Male
Medical sciences
Mesothelioma - epidemiology
Mesothelioma - etiology
NEOPLASMAS
NEOPLASME
Pneumology
Population Surveillance
POUMON
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
PULMONES
RIESGO
RIESGOS OCUPACIONALES
Risk
RISQUE
RISQUE PROFESSIONNEL
Science & Technology
Smoking
Tumors of the respiratory system and mediastinum
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Summary:A case-control study was conducted of the risk of lung cancer and mesothelioma from environmental and occupational exposures associated with sugarcane production. A slight, not statistically significant, excess risk of lung cancer was observed among participants who reported working in the sugarcane industry (odds ratio 1.8, 95% confidence interval 0.5–7.5). No increased risk was observed among our population, associated with living near sugarcane growing areas. Little difference was observed between cases and controls in years employed in the industry or jobs performed. Only one mesothelioma case and no controls reported working in the sugarcane industry.
ISSN:0013-9351
1096-0953
DOI:10.1016/S0013-9351(05)80215-4