Environmental and behavioural head and neck cancer risk factors (CROSBI ID 295233)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Vučičević Boras, Vanja ; Fučić, Aleksandra ; Baranović, Sandra ; Blivajs, Igor ; Milenović, Maja ; Bišof, Vesna ; Rakušić, Zoran ; Ceppi, Marcello ; Bruzzone, Marco
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Environmental and behavioural head and neck cancer risk factors
Objectives: The high incidence of head and neck cancer (HNC), significantly associated with living environment and behaviour, can be prevented more efficiently. The aim of this study was to evaluate the environmental and behavioural risk factors for HNC. Methods: Using a detailed questionnaire on social status, education, living and occupational environment exposures, family cancer and lifestyle, HNC patients (103 cases, 76.7% of men) were compared with control subjects (244 subjects, 73% of men) balanced by age: mean (standard deviation) 63.8 (9.3) and 63.8 (9.0) for cases and controls, respectively. Results: The results of this study showed that smoking and low education were significant risk factors for HNC regardless of sex. Family HNC and breast cancer were significant predictors of HNC risk. Conclusion: The study confirmed previous results that smoking and low education are significantly associated with HNC. Additionally, results pointed to significant HNC and breast cancer risk in HNC patient's families that may have originated from passive smoking or a smoking habit stemming from social environments that support it. Better dissemination programmes regarding smoking risks for children and adults are needed, targeting not only individuals but also families.
aetiology ; education ; family cancer ; head and neck cancer ; smoking
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Podaci o izdanju
27 (2)
2019.
106-109
objavljeno
1210-7778
1803-1048
10.21101/cejph.a5565
Povezanost rada
Biotehnologija u biomedicini (prirodno područje, biomedicina i zdravstvo, biotehničko područje), Dentalna medicina, Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita