Risk of pancreatic cancer in female textile workers in Shanghai, China, exposed to metals, solvents, chemicals, and endotoxin follow-up to a nested case-cohort study

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 195-199

  Reul, Nicholas K ^a   Li, Wenjin ^b   Gallagher, Lisa G ^a   Ray, Roberta M ^b   Romano, Megan E ^a   Gao, Daoli ^c,d   Thomas, David B ^a,b   Vedal, Sverre ^a   Checkoway, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; METAL; POLLUTANT; SOLVENT;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLLUTANT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TOXICITY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; METALS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SOLVENTS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 84957969876     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000596     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. U. S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. United States Cancer Statistics: 1999-2012 Incidence and Mortality Web-Based Report. Atlanta: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute; 2015. Available at: www.cdc.gov/uscs. Accessed October 9, 2015.
2. Jemal A, Bray F, Center MM, Jacques Ferlay ME, Ward E, Forman D. Global cancer statistics. CA Cancer J Clin. 2011;61:69-90.
3. Li D, Xie K, Wolff R, Abbruzzese JL. Pancreatic Cancer. Lancet. 2004;363:1049-1057.
4. Iodice S, Gandini S, Maisonneuve P, et al. Lowenfels AB. Tobacco and the risk of pancreatic cancer: a review and meta-analysis. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2008;393:535-545.
5. Fernandez-del Castillo C, Jimenez RE. Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Exocrine Pancreatic Cancer. In: UpToDate. Savarese DMF, Tanabe KK, editors. Waltham, MA: UpToDate; 2012.
6. Andreotti G, Silverman DT. Occupational risk factors and pancreatic cancer: a review of recent findings. Mol Carcinog. 2012;51:98-108.
7. Santibañez M, Vioque J, Alguacil J, et al. Occupational exposures and risk of pancreatic cancer. Eur J Epidemiol. 2010;25:721-730.
8. Castellan RM, Olenchock SA, Hankinson JL, et al. Acute bronchoconstriction induced by cotton dust: dose-related responses to endotoxin and other dust factors. Ann Intern Med. 1984;101:157-163.
9. Falk RT, Pickle LW, Fontham ET, et al. Occupation and pancreatic cancer risk in Louisiana. Am J Ind Med. 1990;18:565-576.
10. Li W, Ray RM, Gao DL, et al. occupational risk factors for pancreatic cancer among female textile workers in Shanghai, China. Occup Environ Med. 2006;63:788-793.
11. Thomas DB, Gao DL, Ray RM, et al. Randomized trial of breast self-examination in Shanghai: final results. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2002;94:1445-1457.
12. Astrakianakis G, Seixas NS, Ray R, et al. Lung cancer risk among female textile workers exposed to endotoxin. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007;99:357-364.
13. Wernli KJ, Astrakianakis G, Camp JE, et al. Development of a job exposure matrix (JEM) for the textile industry in Shanghai, China. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2006;3:521-529.
14. Astrakianakis G, Seixas NS, Camp JE, et al. Modeling, estimation and validation of cotton dust and endotoxin exposures in Chinese textile operations. Ann Occup Hyg. 2006;50:573-582.
15. Astrakianakis G, Seixas NS, Camp J, Smith TJ, Bartlett K, Checkoway H. Cotton dust and endotoxin exposure levels in three Shanghai textile factories: a comparison of samplers. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2006;3:418-427.
16. Olenchock SA, Christiani DC, Mull JC, Ye TT, Lu PL. Endotoxins in baled cottons and airborne dusts in textile mills in the People's Republic of China. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1983;46:817-820.
17. Kennedy SM, Christiani DC, Eisen EA, et al. Cotton dust and endotoxin exposure-response relationships in cotton textile workers. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1987;135:194-200.
18. Christiani DC, Wegman DH, Eisen EA, Ye TT, Lu PL. Cotton dust and gramnegative bacterial-endotoxin correlations in 2 cotton textile mills. Am J Ind Med. 1993;23:333-342.
19. Christiani DC, Ye TT, Zhang S, et al. Cotton dust and endotoxin exposure and long-term decline in lung function: results of a longitudinal study. Am J Ind Med. 1999;35:321-331.
20. Borgan Ø, Langholz B, Samuelsen SO, Goldstein L, Pogoda J. Exposure stratified case-cohort designs. Lifetime Data Anal. 2000;6:39-58.
21. Langholz B, Jiao J. Computational methods for case-cohort studies. Comput Stat Data Anal. 2007;51:3737-3748.
22. Greenland S. Avoiding power loss associated with categorization and ordinal scores in dose-response and trend analysis. Epidemiology. 1995;6:450-454.
23. Del Pozo JL. Primers on molecular pathways: lipopolysaccharide signaling-potential role in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Pancreatology. 2010;10:114-118. doi:10.1159/000299987.
24. Balkwill F. Tumour necrosis factor and cancer. Nat Rev Cancer;. 2009;361-371.
25. Keane M, Stone S, Chen B, Slaven J, Schwegler-Berry D, Antonini J. Hexavalent chromium content in stainless steel welding fumes is dependent on the welding process and shield gas type. J Environ Monitor. 2009;11:418-424.