TY - JOUR
T1 - Cancer incidence among male Swedish veterinarians and other workers of the veterinary industry
T2 - A record-linkage study
AU - Travier, Noemie
AU - Gridley, Gloria
AU - Blair, Aaron
AU - Dosemeci, Mustafa
AU - Boffetta, Paolo
N1 - Funding Information:
1Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; 2Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institu te, Bethesda, MD, USA; 3Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institu te, Stockholm, Sweden
Funding Information:
We acknowledge Heather Clancy of Information Management Services, for the computer programming. Noemie Travier worked on this study under the tenure of a Special Training Award from the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
PY - 2003/8
Y1 - 2003/8
N2 - Objective: To investigate the risk of cancer among veterinarians in a large record-linkage study from Sweden. Methods: We used the nationwide, Swedish Cancer Environment Registry III, which links the Cancer Register data for 1971-1989 to the national population censuses from 1960 and 1970, to compare the incidence of cancer among male veterinarians to that of the remaining part of the active population using multivariable Poisson regression models and standardized incidence ratios. One thousand one hundred and seventy eight men classified as veterinarians or workers in the veterinary industry at either census were identified. Results: Veterinarians in the veterinary industry experienced increased risk of esophageal (relative risk (RR) 3.78, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.42-10.09), colon (RR: 2.36, 95% CI: 1.42-3.91), pancreatic (RR: 2.10, 95% CI: 0.94-4.68) and brain (RR: 2.51, 95% CI: 1.04-6.03) cancers as well as melanoma of the skin (RR: 2.77, 95% CI: 1.24-6.17). Similar excess risks were observed when veterinarians were compared with individuals of similar socio-economic status. Conclusion: The increased risks of esophageal, colon, pancreatic and brain cancers as well as melanoma observed among veterinarians did not seem to be explained by the high socio-economic status of this occupational group. Therefore, it is possible that some of these results reflect the carcinogenicity of occupational exposures, including animal viruses, solar or ionizing radiations and anesthetics.
AB - Objective: To investigate the risk of cancer among veterinarians in a large record-linkage study from Sweden. Methods: We used the nationwide, Swedish Cancer Environment Registry III, which links the Cancer Register data for 1971-1989 to the national population censuses from 1960 and 1970, to compare the incidence of cancer among male veterinarians to that of the remaining part of the active population using multivariable Poisson regression models and standardized incidence ratios. One thousand one hundred and seventy eight men classified as veterinarians or workers in the veterinary industry at either census were identified. Results: Veterinarians in the veterinary industry experienced increased risk of esophageal (relative risk (RR) 3.78, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.42-10.09), colon (RR: 2.36, 95% CI: 1.42-3.91), pancreatic (RR: 2.10, 95% CI: 0.94-4.68) and brain (RR: 2.51, 95% CI: 1.04-6.03) cancers as well as melanoma of the skin (RR: 2.77, 95% CI: 1.24-6.17). Similar excess risks were observed when veterinarians were compared with individuals of similar socio-economic status. Conclusion: The increased risks of esophageal, colon, pancreatic and brain cancers as well as melanoma observed among veterinarians did not seem to be explained by the high socio-economic status of this occupational group. Therefore, it is possible that some of these results reflect the carcinogenicity of occupational exposures, including animal viruses, solar or ionizing radiations and anesthetics.
KW - Cancer incidence
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Occupational exposure
KW - Veterinarians
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0042011581
U2 - 10.1023/A:1024834927738
DO - 10.1023/A:1024834927738
M3 - Article
C2 - 12948290
AN - SCOPUS:0042011581
SN - 0957-5243
VL - 14
SP - 587
EP - 593
JO - Cancer Causes and Control
JF - Cancer Causes and Control
IS - 6
ER -