Re: Occupational exposure to pesticides and pancreatic cancer. 2001. Ji B.-T., Silverman D.T., Stewart P.A., Blair A., Swanson G.M., Baris D., Greenberg R.D., Hayes R., Brown L.M., Lillemoe K.D., Schoenberg J.B., Pottern L.M., Schwartz A.G., Hoover R. Am. J. Ind. Med. 39:92–99
✍ Scribed by Bu-Tian Ji; Debra T. Silverman; Patricia A. Stewart; Aaron Blair; Robert Hoover
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 33 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
To the Editor:
In our recent paper describing associations of pancreatic cancer to pesticides, Table I presented JEM scores for selected occupations. We omitted several scores from the table, which indicated less variability across the study than was assessed. We have added all possible scores in Table I to reflect this variability. Also, several scores in the table may need further explanation. The supervisors, food and beverage preparation and food counter, fountain and related occupations had possible exposure to nonagricultural fungicides (i.e. disinfectants). Water and sewage treatment plant operators may handle herbicides to kill algae. Historically, textile mills and some dry cleaning operations applied insecticides to fabric. The subjects with jobs of mixing/blending machine operator/tender, or welder and cutter who were assigned pesticide exposures had worked in the chemical industry where pesticides may have been manufactured.
The omissions were only in the reported data and not in the original data, and thus did not affect the epidemiologic results or conclusions.