PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Thomas Behrens AU - Benjamin Kendzia AU - Tabea Treppmann AU - Ann Olsson AU - Karl-Heinz Jöckel AU - Per Gustavsson AU - Hermann Pohlabeln AU - Wolfgang Ahrens AU - Irene Brüske AU - Hans-Erich Wichmann AU - Franco Merletti AU - Dario Mirabelli AU - Lorenzo Richiardi AU - Lorenzo Simonato AU - David Zaridze AU - Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska AU - Peter Rudnai AU - Jolanta Lissowska AU - Eleonora Fabianova AU - Adonina Tardón AU - John Field AU - Rodica Stanescu Dumitru AU - Vladimir Bencko AU - Lenka Foretova AU - Vladimir Janout AU - Jack Siemiatycki AU - Marie-Elise Parent AU - John McLaughlin AU - Paul Demers AU - Maria Teresa Landi AU - Neil Caporaso AU - Hans Kromhout AU - Roel Vermeulen AU - Susan Peters AU - Simone Benhamou AU - Isabelle Stücker AU - Florence Guida AU - Dario Consonni AU - Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita AU - Andrea ‘t Mannetje AU - Neil Pearce AU - Lap Ah Tse AU - Ignatius Tak-sun Yu AU - Nils Plato AU - Paolo Boffetta AU - Kurt Straif AU - Joachim Schüz AU - Beate Pesch AU - Thomas Brüning TI - Lung cancer risk among bakers, pastry cooks and confectionary makers: the SYNERGY study AID - 10.1136/oemed-2013-101469 DP - 2013 Nov 01 TA - Occupational and Environmental Medicine PG - 810--814 VI - 70 IP - 11 4099 - http://oem.bmj.com/content/70/11/810.short 4100 - http://oem.bmj.com/content/70/11/810.full SO - Occup Environ Med2013 Nov 01; 70 AB - Introduction Some studies have suggested increased lung cancer risks among bakers, however the results overall were inconsistent. The authors studied lung cancer risks among bakers and baking-related occupations in the SYNERGY pooled case–control database from 16 countries. Methods Occupation in a baking-related job was identified from the subjects’ job histories. ORs adjusted for log(age), study centre, smoking behaviour and ever employment in a job with known exposure to occupational lung carcinogens were calculated by unconditional logistic regression. Findings were stratified by sex, histological subtype of lung cancer and smoking status. Results 19 366 cases (15 606 men) and 23 670 control subjects (18 528 men) were included. 473 cases (415 men, 58 women) and 501 controls (437 men, 64 women) had ever worked in baking or a related job. We did not observe an increased risk for men in baking (OR 1.01; 95% CI 0.86 to 1.18). No linear trends were observed for duration of employment. Some results suggested increased lung cancer risks for women, for example, for working as a baker for >30 years and in never-smokers, but after exclusion of one study these increased risks disappeared. Discussion The findings from this study do not suggest increased lung cancer risks in baking-related professions.