RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Childhood cancer and parental occupation in Finland.
JF Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JO J Epidemiol Community Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 11
OP 15
DO 10.1136/jech.35.1.11
VO 35
IS 1
A1 K Hemminki
A1 I Saloniemi
A1 T Salonen
A1 T Partanen
A1 H Vainio
YR 1981
UL http://jech.bmj.com/content/35/1/11.abstract
AB A case-control study was conducted of the occupations of parents of children under 15 with diagnosed malignancies. The total series contained all childhood cancers cases reported to the Finnish Cancer Registry during the period 1959-75. The parental occupations, recorded at the time of pregnancy, were collected from maternity welfare centres. The cases were analysed as a singly group or as subgroups according to the diagnoses-brain tumours, leukaemia, and all other malignancies. The maternal occupations found more frequently among cases than controls included farmers' wives (1959-68 only), pharmacists, saleswomen, bakers, and factory work of an vehicle driving, machine repair, painting, and the work of men who gave an academic degree as their occupation. Some of these occupations involve possible exposure to harmful chemicals, although chance correlations cannot be excluded.