Occupational exposure to pesticides and endometrial cancer in the Screenwide case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological tumour in developed countries and disease burden is expected to increase over the years. Identifying modifiable risk factors may help developing strategies to reduce the expected increasing incidence of these neoplasms.

Objective

This study evaluates the association between occupational exposure to pesticides and endometrial cancer using data from a recent case-control study in Spain.

Methods

The analyses included data from 174 consecutive incident endometrial cancer cases and 216 hospital controls frequency-matched by age. Data were collected through structured epidemiological questionnaires and exposure to pesticides was assessed using a Spanish job-exposure matrix (MatEmESp).

Results

Overall, 12

SUBMITTER: Penalver-Pinol A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10621144 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature