Occupational Risk Factors for Selected Cancers among African American and White Men in the United States

N.C. Briggs, R.S. Levine, H.I. Hall, O. Cosby, E.A. Brann and C.H. Hennekens

American Journal of Public Health, 2003, vol. 93, issue 10, 1748-1752

Abstract: Objectives. This study examined occupational risks for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and soft-tissue sarcoma among African American and White men. Methods. Race-specific multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted using data from a large US population-based case-control study. Results. Significant occupational risks were limited to African Americans; chromium was associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio [OR] = 3.9, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.2, 12.9) and wood dust was associated with Hodgkin's disease (OR = 4.6, 95% CI = 1.6, 13.3) and soft-tissue sarcoma (OR = 3.7, 95% CI = 1.6, 8.6). Conclusions. Race-specific occupational risk factors for cancer were evident only among African American men. This may reflect racial disparities in levels of exposure to occupational carcinogens.

Date: 2003
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