Occupational exposure to wood dust and risk of lung cancer in two population-based case-control studies in Montreal, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wood dust is one of the oldest and one of the most common occupational exposures in the world. The present analyses examine the effect of lifetime exposure to wood dust in diverse occupational settings on lung cancer risk.

Methods

We conducted two population-based case-control studies in Montreal: Study I (1979-1986) included 857 cases and two sets of controls (533 population and 1349 cancer controls), and Study II (1996-2001) comprised 736 cases and 894 population controls. Detailed job histories were obtained by interview and each job was evaluated by expert chemist-hygienists to estimate the likelihood and level of exposure to many substances, one of which was wood dust. Odds ratios (ORs) were computed in relation to different indices of exposure to wood dust,

SUBMITTER: Vallieres E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4417249 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature