Subject:  Prostate cancer, occupational risk (Reuss)
Date:     Sun, 22 Aug 1999 030707 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:09:09 +0200
From: Christoph Reuss 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: prostate cancer, occupational risk

Guru asked:
> P.S.  Have there been any such studies which identify the types of
> employment with highest incidence of prostate cancer???

According to the study "Occupational mortality risks of Swiss men 1979-83"
by the Swiss federal office for statistics, the relative mortality (compared
to the general population, adjusted for age etc.) for prostate cancer is:

Top 10:
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Hair-dressers        +86 %
Clerks               +62 %
Forestry workers     +58 %
Technicians          +40 %
Stone/earth/glass
   processing        +33 %
Construction workers +30 %
Lawyers              +25 %
Truckers             +25 %
Railway workers      +23 %
Managers             +20 %

Lowest 10:
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Clergymen            -25 %
Bricklayers          -26 %
Dentists/Veteri-
narians/Pharmacists  -26 %
Artists              -29 %
Communications       -31 %
Foremen              -35 %
Chemists             -47 %
Textile processing   -48 %
Physicians           -57 %
Paper production     -62 %

So this seems to depend on many factors...

Cheerio,
Chris


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