Occupational exposure to combustion by-products and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the association between lifetime occupational exposure to select combustion by-products and postmenopausal breast cancer (BC) risk.

Materials and methods

Data from a population-based case-control study among postmenopausal women residing in Montréal, Quebec were used. Cases included 661 women aged between 47 and 75 yr, diagnosed with incident malignant BC between 2008 and 2011. Controls comprised 587 women randomly selected from the Quebec Electoral List, frequency-matched to cases by 5-year age groups. Information on risk factors and lifetime occupational histories was collected by interview. Two industrial hygienists used job histories to assign exposure to 293 agents, including 6 combustion by-products (cooking fumes, diesel engine emissions, leaded

SUBMITTER: Paul-Cole K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12313464 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature