Occupational Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer: A Meta-analysis
Journal of Cancer Prevention
;
: 91-111, 2019.
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in English
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| ID: wpr-764305
ABSTRACT
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide. There are many occupational factors that have been suggested to cause prostate cancer. Our aim was to evaluate the evidence for causality by a literature review of occupational factors. We searched literature in Medline and SCOPUS from 1966 to June 30, 2015 to identify occupational risk factors for prostate cancer. The following risk factors were selected farmers/agricultural workers, pesticides – whole group, and separately organophosphate and organochlorine pesticides, carbamates and triazines, cadmium, chromium, cutting fluids, acrylonitrile, rubber manufacturing, whole body vibration, shift work, flight personnel, ionizing radiation, and occupational physical activity. For each factor a literature search was performed and presented as meta-analysis of relative risk and heterogeneity (Q and I² index). A total of 168 original studies met the inclusion criteria with 90,688 prostate cancer cases. Significantly increased risks were observed for the following occupational exposures pesticides (metaRR = 1.15, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.01–1.32; I² = 84%), and specifically group of organochlorine pesticides (meta relative risk [metaRR] = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.03–1.14; I² = 0%), chromium (metaRR = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.07–1.34; I² = 31%), shift work (metaRR = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.05–1.49; I² = 78%) and pilots (metaRR = 1.41, 95% CI = 1.02–1.94; I² = 63%) and occupational physical activity in cohort studies (metaRR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.81–0.94; I² = 0%). The literature review supports a causal association for a few of the previously suggested factors.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Pesticides
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Prostate
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Prostatic Neoplasms
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Radiation, Ionizing
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Rubber
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Triazines
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Vibration
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Population Characteristics
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Acrylonitrile
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Cadmium
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
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Systematic reviews
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Cancer Prevention
Year:
2019
Type:
Article
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