{"id":426,"date":"2018-03-01T10:31:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/?p=426"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:04:51","slug":"prostate-cancer-surveillance-by-occupation-and-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/2018\/prostate-cancer-surveillance-by-occupation-and-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostate cancer surveillance by occupation and industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Prostate cancer surveillance by occupation and industry\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

This is another article in a large series of papers done using the 1991 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC), making use of the linkage to the Canadian Cancer Database (1969-2010). This series, some of which are profiled on our lab website, examines cancer risks by occupation and industry. This research is led by Paul Demers<\/a> from the Occupational Cancer Research Centre<\/a> and the University of Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As there are no well\u2010established modifiable risk factors for prostate cancer, further evidence is needed on possible factors such as occupation. Our study uses one of the largest Canadian worker cohorts to examine occupation, industry, and prostate cancer and to assess patterns of prostate cancer rates. The Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC) was established by linking the 1991 Canadian Census Cohort to the Canadian Cancer Database (1969\u20132010), Canadian Mortality Database (1991\u20132011), and Tax Summary Files (1981\u20132011). A total of 37,695 prostate cancer cases were identified in men aged 25\u201374 based on age at diagnosis. Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazards ratios and 95% confidence intervals. In men aged 25\u201374 years, elevated risks were observed in the following occupations: senior management (HR = 1.12, 95% CI: 1.04\u20131.20); office and administration (HR = 1.19, 95% CI: 1.11\u20131.27); finance services (HR = 1.09, 95% CI: 1.04\u20131.14); education (HR = 1.05, 95% CI: 1.00\u20131.11); agriculture and farm management (HR = 1.12, 95% CI: 1.06\u20131.17); farm work (HR = 1.11, 95% CI: 1.01\u20131.21); construction managers (HR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.01\u20131.14); firefighting (HR = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.01\u20131.36); and police work (HR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.09\u20131.36). Decreased risks were observed across other construction and transportation occupations. Results by industry were consistent with occupation results. Associations were identified for white\u2010collar, agriculture, protective services, construction, and transportation occupations. These findings emphasize the need for further study of job\u2010related exposures and the potential influence of nonoccupational factors such as screening practices. (read here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sritharan J, MacLeod J, Harris S, Cole DC, Harris A, Tjepkema M, Peters PA, & PA Demers. (2018). \u201cProstate cancer surveillance by occupation and industry: the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC).\u201d Cancer Medicine<\/i>. 7(4): 1468-1478.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another article in a large series of papers done using the 1991 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC), making use of the linkage to the Canadian Cancer Database (1969-2010). This series, some of which are profiled on our lab website, examines cancer risks by occupation and industry. This research is led by Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,22,24],"tags":[64,67,66,34,65],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-epidemiology","category-environment","category-health","tag-cancer-epidemiology","tag-canchec","tag-cohort-studies","tag-environment","tag-prostate-cancer"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"nature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}