Incidence rates of thyroid cancer and myeloid leukaemia in French Polynesia

✍ Scribed by Christine Bouchardy; Simone Benhamou; Florent de Vathaire; Robin Schaffar; Elisabetta Rapiti

• Book ID: 102275674
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 398 KB
• Volume: 128
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7136
• DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25545

✦ Synopsis

International Journal of Cancer IJC other bacterial components is a distinct possibility. These observations were confirmed in a very similar study in Finland, 10 and a recent meta-analysis, 11 where the summary risk of lung cancer was 0.62 (0.52-0.75) for agricultural workers. The relative risk of lung cancer was below 1.0 for most subgroups defined according to sex, study design, outcome, smoking adjustment and geographic area. These high-quality studies add weight to the hypothesis that occupational exposure to endotoxin in agriculture is protective against lung cancer and could thus pave the way to further preventive strategies.