OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between occupational factors and the incidence of bladder cancer.
METHODS: The present research was based on a hospital-based case-control study. The cases were frequency matched. The non-conditional Logistic regression was used to calculate the odds ratio (OR) of each occupation.
RESULTS: The OR of business and administration professionals, male electricians and electronic workers were 3.88 and 7.40; the OR of janitors and helpers was 0.21; the OR of handcrafters and printing clerks was 0.71, but there was no significant difference.
CONCLUSION: Business and administration professionals, male electricians and electronic workers tend to have bladder cancer. The occupation of janitors and helpers has a protective effect on bladder cancer while the occupation of printing clerks shows no statistical significance on bladder cancer.
Written by:
He GN, Zhong WD, Bi XC, Hu ZQ, Zhong CH, Xie LP, He HC, Han ZD, Ye ZQ. Are you the author?
Department of Urological Surgery, Affiliated Guangzhou Municipal No. 1 Hospital, Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Reference: Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2012 Jul 24;92(28):1978-80.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22944273
Article in Chinese.
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