ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2019
Cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health Study after 20 years of follow-up.
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- Multiple Myeloma and Occupational Risk Factors: A Narrative Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Review
- An Updated Evaluation of Atrazine-Cancer Incidence Associations among Pesticide Applicators in the Agricultural Health Study Cohort.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Joint associations between established genetic susceptibility loci, pesticide exposures, and risk of prostate cancer.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Association of immunotoxicological indices with lung cancer biomarkers in poultry, grape, and rose farming workers.Toxicological research · 2023Article
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- An algorithm for quantitatively estimating occupational endotoxin exposure in the biomarkers of exposure and effect in agriculture study: II. Application to the study population.American journal of industrial medicine · 2023Article
- A prospective nested case-control study of serum concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and aggressive prostate cancer risk.Environmental research · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeTo evaluate cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health Study (AHS), a cohort of private pesticide applicators, their spouses, and commercial applicators, based on 12,420 cancers, adding 5,989 cancers, and 9 years of follow-up since last evaluation.
methodsWe calculated age, year, sex, and race-adjusted standardized incidence ratios (SIR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for cancer sites in the AHS relative to the general population.
resultsOverall AHS cancer incidence was lower than the general population (SIR
conclusionsAlthough an overall deficit in cancer was observed, there were notable exceptions, including newly observed excesses for AML, thyroid, testicular, and peritoneal cancers. Furthermore, endotoxin exposure may, in part, account for observed lung cancer incidence deficits. Cancer incidence patterns in the AHS suggest farm exposures' relevance to cancer etiology.
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