A study explores
the occupations with the strongest links to breast cancer.
As the most
common cancer among women, breast cancer’s potential triggers — from genes to
behaviors to lifestyle and even environmental exposures — are relatively
well-studied. But researchers in Canada were interested in understanding how
one factor in particular — the work environment — can affect a woman’s risk of
developing the disease, and found that some jobs that expose workers to
potential hormone-disrupting chemicals and carcinogens may contribute to a 42%
higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to women who did not work in
those settings.
The study
included 1,006 women with breast cancer and 1,146 women without the disease
living in Essex and Kent counties in Ontario, where there is a diverse
distribution of agricultural and industrial occupations. The region is also
known to have a relatively high cluster of persistent breast cancer cases,
which makes it a useful location for studying the effects of different
occupations on risk of the disease...
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