SynthesisAmerican journal of men's health2013
Farming, reported pesticide use, and prostate cancer.
Synthesis in American journal of men's health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Modifiable risk factors for prostate cancer in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Cancer and occupational exposure to pesticides: an umbrella review.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2021Pooled it
- Trace Element Concentrations of Arsenic and Selenium in Toenails and Risk of Prostate Cancer among Pesticide Applicators.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- Unmasking the Hidden Danger: A Decade-Long Systematic Review of Case-Control Studies on Single Occupational Risks and Prostate Cancer.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Hospital-based prostate cancer screening in vietnamese men with lower urinary tract symptoms: a classification and regression tree model.BMC urology · 2022Article
- Impact of occupational pesticide exposure assessment method on risk estimates for prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Parkinson's disease: results of three meta-analyses.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2022Review
- Occupational Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer: A Meta-analysis.Journal of cancer prevention · 2019Review
- Prostate cancer risk by occupation in the Occupational Disease Surveillance System (ODSS) in Ontario, Canada.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2019Article
- Prostate cancer surveillance by occupation and industry: the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC).Cancer medicine · 2018Article
- Dioxin Exposure in the Manufacture of Pesticide Production as a Risk Factor for Death from Prostate Cancer: A Meta-analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2018Review
- Comparison of cancer incidence in Australian farm residents 45 years and over, compared to rural non-farm and urban residents - a data linkage study.BMC cancer · 2018Article
- Revisiting cancer 15 years later: Exploring mortality among agricultural and non-agricultural workers in the Serrana Region of Rio de Janeiro.American journal of industrial medicine · 2017Article
- Occupation, industry, and the risk of prostate cancer: a case-control study in Montréal, Canada.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2016Article
- Association between pesticide exposure and risk of kidney cancer: a meta-analysis.OncoTargets and therapy · 2016Article
- A critical review of the epidemiology of Agent Orange/TCDD and prostate cancer.European journal of epidemiology · 2014Review
- Prostate cancer incidence and agriculture practices in Georgia, 2000-2010.International journal of occupational and environmental healthArticle
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Prostate cancer is the leading cancer type diagnosed in American men and is the second leading cancer diagnosed in men worldwide. Although studies have been conducted to investigate the association between prostate cancer and exposure to pesticides and/or farming, the results have been inconsistent. We performed a meta-analysis to summarize the association of farming and prostate cancer. The PubMed database was searched to identify all published case-control studies that evaluated farming as an occupational exposure by questionnaire or interview and prostate cancer. Ten published and two unpublished studies were included in this analysis, yielding 3,978 cases and 7,393 controls. Prostate cancer cases were almost four times more likely to be farmers compared with controls with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH; meta odds ratio [OR], crude = 3.83, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.96-7.48, Q-test p value = .352; two studies); similar results were obtained when non-BPH controls were considered, but with moderate heterogeneity between studies (meta OR crude = 1.38, 95% CI = 1.16-1.64, Q-test p value = .216, I (2) = 31% [95% CI = 0-73]; five studies). Reported pesticide exposure was inversely associated with prostate cancer (meta OR crude = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.49-0.96, Q-test p value = .331; four studies), whereas no association with exposure to fertilizers was observed. Our findings confirm that farming is a risk factor for prostate cancer, but this increased risk may not be due to exposure to pesticides.
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