{"id":436,"date":"2018-06-17T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/?p=436"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:04:51","slug":"surveillance-of-cancer-risks-for-firefighters-police-and-armed-forces-among-men-in-a-canadian-census-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/2018\/surveillance-of-cancer-risks-for-firefighters-police-and-armed-forces-among-men-in-a-canadian-census-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance of cancer risks for firefighters, police, and armed forces among men in a Canadian census cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Surveillance of cancer risks for firefighters, police, and armed forces among men in a Canadian census cohort\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div id=\"ajim22891-sec-0001\" class=\"article-section__content\">\n<p>Firefighters, police, and armed services may be exposed to hazards such as combustion by\u2010products and shift work.The CanCHEC cohort linked 1991 census data to the Canadian cancer registry for follow up. Cox proportional hazards modeling was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to estimate risks for firefighter, police, or armed forces compared to workers in other occupations. The cohort of 1\u2009108\u2009410 men included 4535 firefighters, 10\u2009055 police, and 9165 armed forces. For firefighters, elevated risks were noted for Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma (HR: 2.89, 95%CI: 1.29\u20106.46), melanoma (HR: 1.67, 95%CI: 1.17\u20102.37), and prostate cancer (HR: 1.18, 95%CI: 1.01\u20101.37). Police had elevated risks for melanoma (HR:1.69, 95%CI: 1.32\u20102.16) and prostate cancer (HR:1.28, 95%CI: 1.14\u20101.42). No significant associations were found for armed forces workers. Canadian firefighters, police, and armed services, may be at an increased risk of developing certain cancers. Results suggested that a healthy worker effect may influence risk estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Harris A, Kirkham T, MacLeod J, Tjepkema M, <b>Peters PA<\/b>, &amp; PA Demers. (2018) \u201cSurveillance of cancer risks for firefighters, police and armed forces among men in a Canadian census cohort.\u201d <i>American Journal of Industrial Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1002\/ajim.22891\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1002\/ajim.22891<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters, police, and armed services may be exposed to hazards such as combustion by\u2010products and shift work.The CanCHEC cohort linked 1991 census data to the Canadian cancer registry for follow up. Cox proportional hazards modeling was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) to estimate risks for firefighter, police, or armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer-epidemiology","category-general","category-health"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}