Alice Atramont1, Florence Guida, Francesca Mattei, Mireille Matrat, Sylvie Cenée, Marie Sanchez, Matthieu Carton, Gwenn Menvielle, Emilie Marrer, Monica Neri, Danièle Luce, Isabelle Stücker. 1. Université Paris Saclay, Université Paris Sud, UVSQ, CESP, INSERM, Villejuif, France (Drs Atramont, Mattei, Matrat, Ms Cenée, Ms Sanchez, Dr Stücker); Imperial College of London, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, London, UK (Dr Guida); University Paris Est-Créteil, Faculty of Medicine IFR 10, Créteil (Dr Matrat); Université de Versailles St-Quentin, UMRS 1018 (Dr Carton); INSERM (Dr Menvielle), Sorbonne University, UPMC University of Paris 06, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of social epidemiology, Villejuif (Dr Menvielle); Haut-Rhin Cancer Registry, Centre hospitalier de Mulhouse, ARER 68, Mulhouse Cedex, France (Dr Marrer); Unit of Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy (Dr Neri); INSERM, U1085_IRSET, Pointe-à-Pitre (Dr Luce), and University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France (Dr Luce).
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Lung cancer risk associated with occupational cleaning activities has been investigated in the population-based case-control study ICARE. METHODS: Occupational history was collected by standardized interviews. Jobs were first defined according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) codes and then categorized according to activity sectors. Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) were estimated by unconditional logistic regression, separately for women (619 cases and 760 controls) and men (2265 and 2780). RESULTS: Thirty percent of women and 2.3% of men controls ever held a cleaner or care job. Women who worked as housemaids longer than 7 years showed an OR of 1.76 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.09 to 2.87] with respect to controls. Women employed in domestic service sector for a long time had an OR of 2.06 (95% CI 1.15 to 3.66). CONCLUSION: We confirmed and redefined the association of lung cancer with occupational cleaning, which concerns a considerable proportion of women workers.
OBJECTIVES:Lung cancer risk associated with occupational cleaning activities has been investigated in the population-based case-control study ICARE. METHODS: Occupational history was collected by standardized interviews. Jobs were first defined according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) codes and then categorized according to activity sectors. Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) were estimated by unconditional logistic regression, separately for women (619 cases and 760 controls) and men (2265 and 2780). RESULTS: Thirty percent of women and 2.3% of men controls ever held a cleaner or care job. Women who worked as housemaids longer than 7 years showed an OR of 1.76 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.09 to 2.87] with respect to controls. Women employed in domestic service sector for a long time had an OR of 2.06 (95% CI 1.15 to 3.66). CONCLUSION: We confirmed and redefined the association of lung cancer with occupational cleaning, which concerns a considerable proportion of women workers.