Authors: Helle SollJohanning Elsa Bach
Publish Date: 2004/04/24
Volume: 77, Issue: 5, Pages: 351-356
Abstract
Male mail carriers employed for more than 3 months had a low incidence of cancer standardised incidence ratio SIR 092 For cancers related to air pollution the risk estimates were 096 for lung cancer 091 for laryngeal cancer and 098 for bladder cancer A significant low risk for cancer of the oesophagus SIR 050 kidney SIR 073 prostate SIR 081 and skin melanoma SIR 087 was seen Among female mail carriers the risk pattern showed a significant excess of cancer of the cervix uteri SIR 224In our study of mail carriers who had spent most of their day doing physical hard work outside in the general air pollution we saw no excess in cancers related to air pollution compared with the general population of Copenhagen This might be due to the protective effect of physical activityThe authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments of Jørgen H Olsen The Danish Cancer Society Section for Cancer Epidemiology We are very grateful to Mr Visti Birk Larsen Mrs Andrea Meersohn and Mr Ebbe Villadsen for their excellent technical assistance during this study This work was funded by a grant from The Danish Strategic Environmental Research Programme
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