Hematological cancer in the South region of Minas Gerais, Brazil / Canceres hematologicos na região sul de Minas Gerais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Contemporarily, the Cancer has been considered a serious problem of public health in whole world. Its standard of world-wide distribution presents important geographic variations, being observed an increase in the mortality and in the rates of incidence. In Brazil, the neoplasms represent the second more common cause of mortality. Almost the totality of the epidemiological studies searching to relate occupational exposition and cancer has been carried through in the developed countries, with diverse social and economic characteristics of those observed in countries like Brazil. In the industrialized countries it is esteemed that the occupational expositions are responsible for about 4% of all the human cancers. This study has as objective to study possible associations between hematological cancers and exposition to occupational carcinogens in resident patients in the south region of Minas Gerais, region which is composed by 130 cities and 2.167.585 inhabitants. The methodological approach is an epidemiological study of case - control type, in the rate of 1:1, based on carried through public registration for cases of cancer that entered and were treated in the Unique System of Health - SUS of the region. The study included 139 cases and 160 controls. Information had been collected on occupational and ambient exposition to chemical substances, with prominence, for the pesticides and the organic solvent. Associations between hematological cancers and exposition to occupational and ambient risks factors had been investigated, including pesticides and organic solvent. After calculating the Odds Ratio - OR of hematological cancers, with the respective intervals (IC 95%), it was concluded that the pesticides and the organic solvent can contribute to the cause of the hematological cancers.

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study of cases occupational exposition exposição ocupacional worker s health saude do trabalhador estudo de casos

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