Occupational Risk Factors for Selected Cancers Among African American and White Men in the United States

Briggs, Nathaniel C.; Levine, Robert S.; Hall, H. Irene; Cosby, Otis; Brann, Edward A.; Hennekens, Charles H.

Occupational Risk Factors for Selected Cancers Among African American and White Men in the United States

Publication or External Link

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.93.10.1748

Date

2003

Authors

Hennekens, Charles H.

Citation

Briggs, Nathaniel C. and Levine, Robert S. and Hall, H. Irene and Cosby, Otis and Brann, Edward A. and Hennekens, Charles H. (2003) Occupational Risk Factors for Selected Cancers Among African American and White Men in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 93 (10). pp. 1748-1752.

DRUM DOI

https://doi.org/10.13016/2pnq-zm3j

Abstract

Objectives. This study examined occupational risks for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and soft-tissue sarcoma among African American and White men. Methods. Race-specific multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted using data from a large US population-based case–control study. Results. Significant occupational risks were limited to African Americans; chromium was associated with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (odds ratio [OR] = 3.9, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.2, 12.9) and wood dust was associated with Hodgkin’s disease (OR = 4.6, 95% CI = 1.6, 13.3) and soft-tissue sarcoma (OR = 3.7, 95% CI = 1.6, 8.6). Conclusions. Race-specific occupational risk factors for cancer were evident only among African American men. This may reflect racial disparities in levels of exposure to occupational carcinogens.