SynthesisEuropean journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP)2025
Occupational benzene exposure and risk of kidney and bladder cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Bladder cancer risk factors: a comprehensive umbrella review of meta-analyses.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Occupational Benzene Exposure and Risk of Male Genital Cancers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Occupational Exposure to Benzene and Risk of Breast Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.La Medicina del lavoro · 2024Pooled it
- Occupational exposures and kidney cancer among 25 000 male offshore petroleum industry workers: relative risks and healthy worker survivor bias.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- The burden of bladder cancer and kidney cancer attributable to smoking in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1990 to 2023 and projections to 2050.Tobacco induced diseases · 2026Article
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- Bladder Cancer: Uncovering the Predictive Role of NOTCH as an Emerging Candidate Biomarker for Therapeutic Strategies.Cancers · 2025Review
- Occupational hazards and bladder cancer-An umbrella review of the risk in workers exposed over the past 30 years.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Relationship between benzene concentration, MDA levels and kidney function in car painting workshops in Surabaya: A cross-sectional observational study.F1000Research · 2023Observational
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Abstract
introductionBenzene is recognized as leukemogenic. However, the association between it and solid cancers has been the subject of less investigation. We aim to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the association between occupational exposure to benzene and the risk of urinary tract cancer, including kidney and bladder.
methodsWe included 41 cohort and case-control studies listed in the most recent International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monograph on benzene exposure and the result of a literature review to identify more recent studies. Forest plots of relative risk (RR) were constructed for kidney, bladder, and urinary tract cancer overall. A random-effects model was used to address heterogeneity between studies. Stratified analyses were conducted to explore effect modification.
resultsOur findings revealed an association between exposure to occupational benzene and kidney and unspecified urinary tract cancers (RR = 1.20, 95% confidence interval = 1.03-1.39), and an association of borderline statistical significance with bladder cancer (RR = 1.07, 95% confidence interval = 0.97-1.18). Publication bias was excluded for both kidney ( P = 0.809) and bladder cancer ( P = 0.748). Stratification analysis according to the selected study characteristics showed no difference except regarding the industry for kidney cancer ( P < 0.000), with a stronger association in the chemical industry. An analysis by exposure level did not reveal any trend for kidney cancer, whereas there was a trend ( P = 0.01) for bladder cancer.
conclusionOur study found an association between occupational benzene exposure and kidney cancer and a dose-effect association between benzene exposure and bladder cancer.
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