ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2021
Lung cancer risk in painters: results from the SYNERGY pooled case-control study consortium.
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- Identifying and Prioritizing Hazardous Chemicals in Construction Metal Structure Coating Systems: A Roadmap for Data-Driven Disease Prevention.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Environmental risk factors, protective factors and lifestyles for lung cancer: an umbrella review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Lung Cancer Risks Associated with Occupational Exposure to Pairs of Five Lung Carcinogens: Results from a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies (SYNERGY).Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Lung cancer risk in relation to jobs held in a nationwide case-control study in Iran.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2022Article
- Etiology of lung cancer: Evidence from epidemiologic studies.Journal of the National Cancer Center · 2022Review
- Lung Cancer in the French West Indies: Role of Sugarcane Work and Other Occupational Exposures.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Occupational cancer burden: the contribution of exposure to process-generated substances at the workplace.Molecular oncology · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe evaluated the risk of lung cancer associated with ever working as a painter, duration of employment and type of painter by histological subtype as well as joint effects with smoking, within the SYNERGY project.
methodsData were pooled from 16 participating case-control studies conducted internationally. Detailed individual occupational and smoking histories were available for 19 369 lung cancer cases (684 ever employed as painters) and 23 674 age-matched and sex-matched controls (532 painters). Multivariable unconditional logistic regression models were adjusted for age, sex, centre, cigarette pack-years, time-since-smoking cessation and lifetime work in other jobs that entailed exposure to lung carcinogens.
resultsEver having worked as a painter was associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in men (OR 1.30; 95% CI 1.13 to 1.50). The association was strongest for construction and repair painters and the risk was elevated for all histological subtypes, although more evident for small cell and squamous cell lung cancer than for adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma. There was evidence of interaction on the additive scale between smoking and employment as a painter (relative excess risk due to interaction >0).
conclusionsOur results by type/industry of painter may aid future identification of causative agents or exposure scenarios to develop evidence-based practices for reducing harmful exposures in painters.
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