Increased lung cancer risk among bricklayers in an Italian population-based case-control study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 423-428

  Consonni, Dario ^a   de Matteis, Sara ^a,b,d   Pesatori, Angela C ^a,b   Cattaneo, Andrea ^c   Cavallo, Domenico M ^b,c   Lubin, Jay H ^d   Tucker, Margaret ^d   Bertazzi, Pier Alberto ^a,b   Caporaso, Neil E ^d   Wacholder, Sholom ^d   Landi, Maria Teresa ^d  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Construction industry; Epidemiology; Occupational health; Pulmonary neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; ITALY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 84859761766     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22017     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). 2011. Threshold limit values and biological exposure indices. Cincinnati, OH: ACGIH.
2. Ahrens W, Merletti F. 1998. A standard tool for the analysis of occupational lung cancer in epidemiologic studies. Int J Occup Environ Health 4: 236-240.
3. Andersen A, Barlow L, Engeland A, Kjaerheim K, Lynge E, Pukkala E. 1999. Work-related cancer in the Nordic countries. Scand J Work Environ Health 25( Suppl 2): 1-116.
4. Boschman JS, van der Molen HF, Sluiter JK, Frings-Dresen MHW. 2011. Occupational demands and health effects for bricklayers and construction supervisors: A systematic review. Am J Ind Med 54: 55-77.
5. Brockmann M, Clarke L, Winch C, editors. 2010. Bricklaying is more than Flemish bond. Bricklaying qualifications in Europe. Leonardo Da Vinci Project. Nazareth, Belgium: CLR publications, p. 87.
6. Consonni D, De Matteis S, Lubin JH, Wacholder S, Tucker M, Pesatori AC, Caporaso NE, Bertazzi PA, Landi MT. 2010. Lung cancer and occupation in a population-based case-control study. Am J Epidemiol 171: 323-333.
7. De Stefani E, Boffetta P, Brennan P, Deneo-Pellegrini H, Ronco A, Gutiérrez LP. 2005. Occupational exposures and risk of adenocarcinoma of the lung in Uruguay. Cancer Causes Control 16: 851-856.
8. Dong W, Vaughan P, Sullivan K, Fletcher T. 1995. Mortality study of construction workers in the UK. Int J Epidemiol 24: 750-757.
9. Driscoll T, Nelson DI, Steenland K, Leigh J, Concha-Barrientos M, Fingerhut M, Prüss-Ustün A. 2005. The global burden of disease due to occupational carcinogens. Am J Ind Med 48: 419-431.
10. Flanagan ME, Seixas N, Becker P, Takacs B, Camp J. 2006. Silica exposure on construction sites: Results of an exposure monitoring data compilation project. J Occup Environ Hyg 3: 144-152.
11. Giovanazzi A, Chellini E, Fubini B, Capacci F, Ferri F, Di Rico R, Peluso M, Tomatis M, Munnia A, Carnevale F, Loi AM, Arcari C, Sciarra G, Network Italiano Silice. 2011. Prevention of silica health effects in Italy: Current challenges for the Occupational Health and Safety Unit of the Italian National Health Service. Med Lav 102: 350-361.
12. IARC. 2011. Agents Classified by the IARC Monographs, Volumes 1-100. accessed July 12, 2011.
13. INAIL. 2005. Annual regional report 2005. Lombardy, Milan: INAIL [in Italian].
14. Kauppinen T, Toikkanen J, Pedersen D, Young R, Ahrens W, Boffetta P, Hansen J, Kromhout H, Maqueda Blasco J, Mirabelli D, de la Orden-Rivera V, Pannett B, Plato N, Savela A, Vincent R, Kogevinas M. 2000. Occupational exposure to carcinogens in the European Union. Occup Environ Med 57: 10-18.
15. Landi MT, Consonni D, Rotunno M, Bergen AW, Goldstein AM, Lubin JH, Goldin L, Alavanja M, Morgan G, Subar AF, Linnoila I, Previdi F, Corno M, Rubagotti M, Marinelli B, Albetti B, Colombi A, Tucker M, Wacholder S, Pesatori AC, Caporaso NE, Bertazzi PA. 2008. Environment And Genetics in Lung cancer Etiology (EAGLE) study: An integrative population-based case-control study of lung cancer. BMC Public Health 8: 203.
16. McGuire V, Nelson LM, Koepsell TD, Checkoway H, Longstreth WT Jr. 1998. Assessment of occupational exposures in community-based case-control studies. Annu Rev Public Health 19: 35-53.
17. Minder CE, Beer-Porizek V. 1992. Cancer mortality of Swiss men by occupation, 1979-1982. Scand J Work Environ Health 18( Suppl 3): 1-27.
18. Mirabelli D, Chiusolo M, Calisti R, Massacesi S, Richiardi L, Nesti M, Merletti F. 2001. Database of occupations and industrial activities that involve the risk of pulmonary tumors. Epidemiol Prev 25: 215-221 [in Italian].
19. Miscetti G, Bodo P, Garofani P, Abbritti EP, Luciani G, Mazzant M, Bessi L, Marsili G. 2011. A survey on workers' individual exposure to crystalline silica in the building industry. Med Lav 102: 370-381 [in Italian].
20. Rappaport SM, Goldberg M, Susi P, Herrick RF. 2003. Excessive exposure to silica in the US construction industry. Ann Occup Hyg 47: 111-122.
21. Robinson C, Stern F, Halperin W, Venable H, Petersen M, Frazier T, Burnett C, Lalich N, Salg J, Sestito J, Fingerhut M. 1995. Assessment of mortality in the construction industry in the United States, 1984-1986. Am J Ind Med 28: 49-70.
22. Rushton L, Bagga S, Bevan R, Brown TP, Cherrie JW, Holmes P, Fortunato L, Slack R, Van Tongeren M, Young C, Hutchings SJ. 2010. Occupation and cancer in Britain. Br J Cancer 102: 1428-1437.
23. Scarselli A, Scano P, Marinaccio A, Iavicoli S. 2009. Occupational cancer in Italy: Evaluating the extent of compensated cases in the period 1994-2006. Am J Ind Med 52: 859-867.
24. Siemiatycki J, Richardson L, Boffetta P. 2006. Occupation. In: Schottenfeld D, Fraumeni JF Jr, editors. Cancer epidemiology and prevention. 3rd edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 322-354.
25. StataCorp. 2009. Stata: Release 11. Statistical Software. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
26. Stern F, Lehman E, Ruder A. 2001. Mortality among unionized construction plasterers and cement masons. Am J Ind Med 39: 373-388.
27. Stocks SJ, McNamee R, Carder M, Agius RM. 2010. The incidence of medically reported work-related ill health in the UK construction industry. Occup Environ Med 67: 574-576.
28. van der Molen HF, Veenstra SJ, Sluiter JK, Frings-Dresen MHW. 2004. World at work: Bricklayers and bricklayers' assistants. Occup Environ Med 61: 89-93.
29. Vitelli N, Battevi N, Carissimi E. 2011. Preliminary results of a health survey of muscular-skeletal disorders in a group of 2247 small building trades in the Province of Bergamo. Med Lav 102: 250-261 [in Italian].
30. Wacholder S. 2005. The impact of a prevention effort in a community. Epidemiology 16: 1-3. [Errata in: 2005. Epidemiology 16; 272, 555].