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Acta Oncologica 2009

 

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Nordic Occupational Cancer Study (NOCCA)

We present up to 45 years of cancer incidence data by occupational category for the Nordic populations. The study covers the 15 million people aged 30-64 years in the 1960, 1970, 1980/1981 and/or 1990 censuses in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and the 2.8 million incident cancer cases diagnosed in these people in a follow-up until about 2005.

Further studies will focus on associations between specific work-related factors and well-defined cancer diseases with the aim to identify exposure-response patterns. In addition to the cancer data demonstrated in the incidence publication, the NOCCA project produces a Nordic Job Exposure Matrix (JEM) that transforms information about occupational title histories to quantitative estimates of specific exposures. The third essential component is methodological development targeted at better interpretation of results based on averaged information of exposures and co-factors in the occupational categories.

This study was financially supported by the Nordic Cancer Union and Scientific Council in Sweden.

 1 Finnish Cancer Registry
 2 School of Public Health, University of Tampere
 3 Cancer Registry of Norway
 4 University of Copenhagen
 5 Center of Public Health Sciences
 6 Karolinska Institute
 7 Icelandic Cancer Registry
 8 Samfundet Folkhalsan
 9 University of Tromsø
10 Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
11 National Institute of Occupational Health, Norway
12 Danish Cancer Society
13 Administration of Occupational Safety and Health
14 University of Oulu
15 University of Iceland

 

 
EPI team
Johnni Hansen12
Sanna Heikkinen1
Elsebeth Lynge4
Jan Ivar Martinsen3
Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum11
Eero Pukkala1
Jenny Selander6
Jóhanna Eyrún Torfadóttir15
 
 
JEM team
Johnni Hansen12
Ragnhild B S Østrem11
Pernilla Wiebert6
Sanni Uuksulainen10
 
 
STAT team
Karri Seppä1
Esben Meulengracht Flachs12
Álfheiður Haraldsdóttir7
 
 
Project coordinator
Sanna Heikkinen1