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Manual Work and Lung Cancer Risk in High-Risk Populations

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dc.contributor.authorFauziah Nordin
dc.contributor.authorSJ Lewis
dc.contributor.authorPNS O’Donnell
dc.contributor.authorPAJ Crosbie
dc.contributor.authorRichard Booton
dc.contributor.authorRM Agius
dc.contributor.authorPhilip Barber
dc.contributor.authorAndrew Povey
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-10T00:51:50Z
dc.date.available2024-09-10T00:51:50Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractManual work is associated with increased lung cancer risk possibly because of increased exposure to occupational and other carcinogens, reduced use of health care services and/or a less healthy lifestyle. The aim of this study was to examine whether the association between manual work and lung cancer risk has changed over time. Three separate retrospective studies were carried out over a 10-year period (1996-1997, 1998-2000 and 2003-2005) in patients attending a bronchoscopy clinic to investigate lung cancer risk in an area of Manchester characterised by high deprivation and unemployment. Cases (n=321) were patients newly diagnosed with a tumour of the lung, trachea or bronchus and controls (n=542) were patients free of tumours at the time of, and prior to, examination. Patients were interviewed using the same structured questionnaire for associations between risk factors and lung cancer examined. The study population in all three studies was similar with little difference in smoking history. In each study smoking was associated with lung cancer risk. Lung cancer risk was higher in manual workers (compared to managers and other professionals) in the first (OR 2.50, 95% CI 1.20 – 5.05) and second study (OR 2.73, 95% CI 0.97 – 7.70) but not the third (OR 0.97, 95% CI 0.58 – 1.61). However, the summary odds ratio (meta-OR) for lung cancer in manual worker was 1.81 (95% 1.75 – 1.87) after controlling for sex, age and smoking. This study suggested that even after taking into account known occupational and environmental causes of cancer, there was a residual cancer risk associated with manual work, high risk working populations of lung cancer. However this appears to have attenuated recently for as yet unknown reasons.
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.nih.gov.my/handle/123456789/1082
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.journalJournal of Occupational Safety and Health
dc.subjectOccupational exposure
dc.subjectManual work
dc.subjectLung cancer risk
dc.titleManual Work and Lung Cancer Risk in High-Risk Populations
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oaire.citation.volumeVolume 11
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