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Open AccessAssociation between sexual behaviour and head and neck cancer in the French West Indies: a case-control study based on an Afro-Caribbean population
Worldwide, a significant proportion of head and neck cancers is attributed to the Human papillomavirus (HPV). It is imperative that we acquire a solid understanding of the natural history of this virus in head...
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Open AccessGeographical variations of cancer incidence in Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Geographical disparities in cancer incidence are observed at different scales and may highlight areas of high risk that need special attention to improve health policies. In Guadeloupe, a French archipelago in...
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Open AccessHead and neck cancer risk factors in the French West Indies
The incidence of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) in the French West Indies (FWI) is relatively high, despite a low prevalence of tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking. Little is known about other ...
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Occupational Factors in the Social Gradients in Cancer Incidence
Among agents classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as causally linked to cancer through human, animal and experimental studies up to 2017, there are 59 occupational settings: 47 individ...
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A cohort study of banana plantation workers in the French West Indies: first mortality analysis (2000–2015)
Chlordecone, an organochlorine insecticide, was widely used in the French West Indies banana plantations. We set up a cohort of banana plantation workers who worked between 1973 and 1993, the period of authori...
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Sinonasal Cancer
Sinonasal cancer, the cancer of the nose and paranasal cavities, is rare with an incidence below 2/100,000 person-year; the incidence is lowest among women and with distinct differences between countries. Thes...
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Open AccessSocial distribution of tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and obesity in the French West Indies
Tobacco smoking, alcohol and obesity are important risk factors for a number of non-communicable diseases. The prevalence of these risk factors differ by socioeconomic group in most populations, but this socia...
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Open AccessHead and neck cancer and occupational exposure to leather dust: results from the ICARE study, a French case-control study
Leather dust is an established carcinogen of the sinonasal cavities; however, evidence is lacking regarding its association with other head and neck cancers (HNC). To date, few studies have been conducted on t...
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Occupational prestige trajectory and the risk of lung and head and neck cancer among men and women in France
This study aimed at investigating the associations between occupational prestige trajectories and lung and head and neck (HN) cancer risk and to assess to what extent smoking, alcohol drinking, and occupationa...
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Open AccessOccupational exposure to petroleum-based and oxygenated solvents and hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer in France: the ICARE study
To examine associations between occupational exposure to petroleum-based and oxygenated solvents and the risk of hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer.
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Disparities in cancer incidence by area-level socioeconomic status in the French West Indies
Social inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality have been reported in France, but no data are available for the French overseas territories. Our objective was to explore the association between cancer in...
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Prevalence of oral HPV infection among healthy individuals and head and neck cancer cases in the French West Indies
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is known to play a role in the development of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) and to date, no study has reported on the association between oral HPV infection and HNSC...
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Open AccessOccupational exposure to chlorinated solvents and risk of head and neck cancer in men: a population-based case-control study in France
Few epidemiological studies have investigated the link between occupational exposure to solvents and head and neck cancer risk, and available findings are sparse and inconsistent. The objective of this study w...
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Quantifying the mediating effects of smoking and occupational exposures in the relation between education and lung cancer: the ICARE study
Smoking only partly explains the higher lung cancer incidence observed among socially deprived people. Occupational exposures may account for part of these inequalities, but this issue has been little investig...
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Open AccessPopulation attributable risks of oral cavity cancer to behavioral and medical risk factors in France: results of a large population-based case–control study, the ICARE study
Population attributable risks (PARs) are useful tool to estimate the burden of risk factors in cancer incidence. Few studies estimated the PARs of oral cavity cancer to tobacco smoking alone, alcohol drinking ...
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Coffee consumption and risk of lung cancer: the ICARE study
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Estimating the social cost of respiratory cancer cases attributable to occupational exposures in France
The objective of this article was to estimate the social cost of respiratory cancer cases attributable to occupational risk factors in France in 2010.
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Open AccessFamily history of cancer, personal history of medical conditions and risk of oral cavity cancer in France: the ICARE study
The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of family history of cancer and personal history of other medical conditions in the aetiology of the oral cavity cancer in France.
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Open AccessDiverging trends in educational inequalities in cancer mortality between men and women in the 2000s in France
Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality have been observed in different European countries and the US until the end of the 1990s, with changes over time in the magnitude of these inequalities and contra...
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Body mass index, body mass change, and risk of oral cavity cancer: results of a large population-based case–control study, the ICARE study
The association between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of oral cavity cancer, suggested by the few available studies, is controversial because of weight loss preceding cancer diagnosis and possible confoun...
