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Show unite kind of work you do . s; the tvpe of cancer you : a, someday develop? .' i DEPENDS, says a ttitersity of Utah Medical ".-in researcher who just rjiiihed an extensive study . :!0 be relationship between -jpation and cancer. : But, he cautions, not , ; igb study has been done to , idiiitely link specific oc-,.Mion oc-,.Mion to a specific disease. fHAT OUR research es-Kially es-Kially shows is that the job nvbe associated with en-t'onmental en-t'onmental factors that ci.se cancer. Or else other Mtaors associated with L:cer (i.e., late age at first ' --Enancy, low income) may , found more often among K :?le who go in for specific ..pations," said Dr. RogeF Williams, associate lessor of internal -icine at the U. and car-::;0gist. car-::;0gist. He said the occupational-.ancer occupational-.ancer research study he spieled while doing ::;demiological work at the '-'.imal Institutes of Health, J provide baseline data for :yre studies into the rela-:-r:shi p between types of 'tfkand incidence of cancer. THE STUDY, which was Jished in a recent issue of Journal of the American Weal Association, showed a interesting statistics, example, lung cancer pa-atswere pa-atswere found more often ' expected in industrial Tories such as trucking, :t transportation, mealing, painting, build-:!fflnstruction, build-:!fflnstruction, janitorial "wand manufacturing. -Patients with leukemia d multiple myeloma were 'M more often among sales 'rainel of both sexes. WOMEN with "Pkomas and Hodgkin's ase were found more of-:1 of-:1 than expected in the 'Mi care industry. -Breast cancer was more ' "mon among women who ;':re teachers, other profes-i' profes-i' onals, and among those 'ng in baking, real es- accounting and in-Jance. in-Jance. 1ECTAL cancer in both ln and women was as-ated as-ated with several retail industries and with machine operators, and prostate cancer was more common among ministers, farmers, plumbers, rubber workers, coal miners and two types of retailers. -Malignant melanoma was more common in school teachers, and invasive cervical cer-vical carcinoma was found in excess among women working in restrauants and hotels. DR. WILLIAMS said one of the strengths of the study was the researchers' ability to control for tobacco and alcohol al-cohol in the analyses. "We found that construction construc-tion workers had high levels of smoking among their ranks, but when we examined the nonsmokers in this field, we found that they still had higher levels of lung cancer than people in other professions," profes-sions," he said. .DR. WILLIAMS stressed that a cautious and conservative conserva-tive approach should be followed in interpreting these data, and the results should be used only as a research resource for the formation of hypotheses and planning of studies to follow up on the leads suggested. |