Parental Occupational Exposure to Organic Solvents and Testicular Germ Cell Tumors in their Offspring: NORD-TEST Study
2017
Background: Testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) were suggested to have a prenatal environmentally related origin. The potential endocrine disrupting properties of certain solvents may interfere with the male genital development in utero. Objectives: We aimed to assess the association between maternal and paternal occupational exposures to organic solvents during the prenatal period and TGCT risk in their offspring. Methods: This registry-based case control study included TGCT cases aged 14–49 y (n=8,112) diagnosed from 1978 to 2012 in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Controls (n=26,264) were randomly selected from the central population registries and were individually matched to cases on year and country of birth. Occupational histories of parents prior to the child’s birth were extracted from the national censuses. Job codes were converted into solvent exposure using the Nordic job-Nordic Occupational Cancer Study Job-Exposure Matrix. Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and ...
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- Germ cell tumors
- Occupational cancer
- Environmental health
- Obstetrics
- Solvent exposure
- Case-control study
- Sex organ
- Biology
- Offspring
- Population
- Gynecology
- Odds ratio
- testicular germ cell
- Internal medicine
- Andrology
- Endocrine system
- Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
- Paternal Exposure
- occupational exposure
- Pregnancy
- Endocrinology
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