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SUBMITTER: Adler C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6335162 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Adler Colin C Friesen Melissa C MC Yeboah Edward D ED Tettey Yao Y Biritwum Richard B RB Adjei Andrew A AA Tay Evelyn E Okyne Victoria V Mensah James E JE Truelove Ann A Yang Baiyu B Kelly Scott P SP Zhou Cindy Ke CK McCullough Lauren E LE Pardo Larissa L Hoover Robert N RN Hsing Ann W AW Cook Michael B MB Koutros Stella S
Occupational and environmental medicine 20181207 2
<h4>Objectives</h4>Established prostate cancer (PCa) risk factors include age, family history of PCa and African ancestry. Studies, mostly among highly screened, predominantly European ancestral populations, suggest that employment in certain occupations (eg, farming, military) may also have an increased risk for PCa. Here, we evaluated the association between usual adult occupation and PCa risk in Ghanaian men, a population with historically low rates of PCa screening.<h4>Methods</h4>The Ghana ...[more]