Shinji Kumagai1, Tomotaka Sobue2, Takeshi Makiuchi2, Shoji Kubo3, Shinichiro Uehara4, Tomoshige Hayashi4, Kyoko Kogawa Sato4, Ginji Endo5. 1. Department of Occupational and Environmental Management, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyusyu, Japan. 2. Department of Environmental Medicine and Population Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. 3. Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. 4. Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. 5. Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan Ohara Memorial Institute for Science of Labor, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between cumulative exposure to 1,2-dichloropropane (1,2-DCP) and incidence risk of cholangiocarcinoma among workers in the offset proof-printing section of a small printing company in Osaka, Japan. METHODS: We identified 95 workers of a printing company (78 men and 17 women) who had been exposed to 1,2-DCP between 1987 and 2006, and calculated the standardised incidence ratio (SIR) of cholangiocarcinoma from 1987 to 2012. We estimated cumulative exposure to 1,2-DCP and calculated SIRs in four exposure categories. We also calculated incidence rate ratios (RRs) adjusted by sex, age, calendar year and dichloromethane (DCM) exposure for three exposure categories using Poisson regression analysis. RESULTS: Cumulative exposures to 1,2-DCP ranged from 32 to 3433 ppm-years (mean, 851 ppm-years) and the SIR was 1171 (95% CI 682 to 1875). In the analysis of the four exposure categories, SIRs increased significantly in the three highest exposure categories, but not in the lowest category. Adjusted RRs in the middle and high exposure categories were 14.9 (95% CI 4.1 to 54.3) and 17.1 (95% CI 3.8 to 76.2), respectively, in the analysis without lag time, and were 11.4 (95% CI 3.3 to 39.6) and 32.4 (95% CI 6.4 to 163.9), respectively, in the analysis with a 5-year lag. The trend analysis revealed a significant increase in RR in association with increasing cumulative exposure to 1,2-DCP. DCM exposure was not significantly associated with the development of cholangiocarcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: The present study demonstrated an exposure-response relationship between exposure to 1,2-DCP and the development of cholangiocarcinoma. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between cumulative exposure to 1,2-dichloropropane (1,2-DCP) and incidence risk of cholangiocarcinoma among workers in the offset proof-printing section of a small printing company in Osaka, Japan. METHODS: We identified 95 workers of a printing company (78 men and 17 women) who had been exposed to 1,2-DCP between 1987 and 2006, and calculated the standardised incidence ratio (SIR) of cholangiocarcinoma from 1987 to 2012. We estimated cumulative exposure to 1,2-DCP and calculated SIRs in four exposure categories. We also calculated incidence rate ratios (RRs) adjusted by sex, age, calendar year and dichloromethane (DCM) exposure for three exposure categories using Poisson regression analysis. RESULTS: Cumulative exposures to 1,2-DCP ranged from 32 to 3433 ppm-years (mean, 851 ppm-years) and the SIR was 1171 (95% CI 682 to 1875). In the analysis of the four exposure categories, SIRs increased significantly in the three highest exposure categories, but not in the lowest category. Adjusted RRs in the middle and high exposure categories were 14.9 (95% CI 4.1 to 54.3) and 17.1 (95% CI 3.8 to 76.2), respectively, in the analysis without lag time, and were 11.4 (95% CI 3.3 to 39.6) and 32.4 (95% CI 6.4 to 163.9), respectively, in the analysis with a 5-year lag. The trend analysis revealed a significant increase in RR in association with increasing cumulative exposure to 1,2-DCP. DCM exposure was not significantly associated with the development of cholangiocarcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: The present study demonstrated an exposure-response relationship between exposure to 1,2-DCP and the development of cholangiocarcinoma. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/
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1,2-dichloropropane; Bile duct cancer; Printing workers
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