J Occup Environ Med. 2024 Dec 1;66(12):e642-e645. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000003249.
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to measure cancer’s incidence in endemic fight agents in a Brazil’s Northeast state.
METHODS: This is a historical cohort with 1053 endemic fight agents. A survival analysis was performed using Kaplan-Meier method.
RESULTS: The overall neoplasm incidence rate has been 5508 cases per 105, and 4843 cases per 105 when nonmelanoma skin tumors were excluded. The increase in incidence of neoplasms occurred in 2019 and has conferred a risk of neoplasms 20 times higher than the national and state incidence.
CONCLUSIONS: We believe in an occupational factor for these results: the chronic exposure to insecticides used in public health campaigns. The peak incidence of neoplasms, in 2019, may corroborate with long induction period of these compounds, in addition to consistency with specialized literature.
PMID:39621961 | DOI:10.1097/JOM.0000000000003249
