Cancer Risk in Aluminum Reduction Plant Workers (Canada)

A 14-year update to a previously published historical cohort study of aluminum reduction plant workers was conducted [1]. All men with three or more years at an aluminum reduction plant in British Columbia (BC), Canada between the years 1954 and 1997 were included; a total of 6,423 workers. A total...

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Published in:Cancer causes & control 2006-09, Vol.17 (7), p.939-948
Main Authors: Spinelli, John J., Demers, Paul A., Le, Nhu D., Friesen, Melissa D., Lorenzi, Maria F., Fang, Raymond, Gallagher, Richard P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air Pollutants, Occupational - adverse effects
Aluminum
Aluminum - adverse effects
Bladder cancer
Brain cancer
British Columbia - epidemiology
Cancer incidence
Coal Tar - adverse effects
Cohort Studies
Dose response relationship
Employment
Follow-Up Studies
Gastric cancer
Humans
Kidney cancer
Kidneys
Lung cancer
Lung neoplasms
Lymphoma
Male
Mortality
Neoplasms - chemically induced
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Neoplasms - mortality
Non Hodgkin lymphoma
Occupational Exposure
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Polycyclic Compounds - adverse effects
Questionnaires
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Stomach cancer
Tobacco smoking
Trends
Urinary bladder
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Summary:A 14-year update to a previously published historical cohort study of aluminum reduction plant workers was conducted [1]. All men with three or more years at an aluminum reduction plant in British Columbia (BC), Canada between the years 1954 and 1997 were included; a total of 6,423 workers. A total of 662 men were diagnosed with cancer, representing a 400% increase from the original study. Standardized mortality and incidence ratios were used to compare the cancer mortality and incidence of the cohort to that of the BC population. Poisson regression was used to examine risk by cumulative exposure to coal tar pitch volatiles (CTPV) measured as benzene soluble materials (BSM) and benzo(a)pyrene (BaP). The risk for bladder cancer was related to cumulative exposure to CTPV measured as BSM and BaP (p trends
ISSN:0957-5243
1573-7225
DOI:10.1007/s10552-006-0031-9