Participants, incident cancer cases, and duration of follow-up in study of exposure work strain and risk of cancer
| Study* (country) | Median† follow-up (years) | No of participants‡ | No (%) cancer free | No (%) of incident cancer cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any cancer | Colorectal cancer | Lung cancer | Breast cancer | Prostate cancer | ||||
| COPSOQ-I (Denmark)30 | 12 (2-12) | 1699 | 1609 (94.7) | 90 (5.3) | 10 (0.6) | 6 (0.4) | 18 (1.1) | 3 (0.2) |
| DWECS (Denmark)31 32 | 10 (2-10) | 5313 | 5129 (96.5) | 184 (3.5) | 20 (0.4) | 16 (0.3) | 39 (0.7) | 21 (0.4) |
| FPS (Finland)33 | 5 (3-5) | 42 401 | 41 562 (98.0) | 839 (2.0) | 41 (0.1) | 26 (0.1) | 300 (0.7) | 38 (0.1) |
| GAZEL (France)34 35 | 11 (3-12) | 10 700 | 9888 (92.4) | 812 (7.6) | 66 (0.6) | 55 (0.5) | 86 (0.8) | 252 (2.4) |
| HeSSup (Finland)36 | 8 (4-8) | 14 689 | 14 304 (97.4) | 385 (2.6) | 25 (0.2) | 10 (0.1) | 108 (0.7) | 34 (0.2) |
| IPAW (Denmark)37 38 | 13 (2-14) | 1880 | 1769 (94.1) | 111 (5.9) | 8 (0.4) | 10 (0.5) | 32 (1.7) | 7 (0.4) |
| POLS (Netherlands)39 | 11 (3-13) | 8844 | 8574 (96.9) | 270 (3.1) | 44 (0.5) | 22 (0.2) | 2 (0.0) | 29 (0.3) |
| PUMA (Denmark)40 | 11 (3-11) | 1691 | 1609 (95.2) | 82 (4.8) | 10 (0.6) | 8 (0.5) | 26 (1.5) | 6 (0.4) |
| Still Working (Finland)41 42 | 23 (3-23) | 8998 | 8169 (90.8) | 829 (9.2) | 70 (0.8) | 107 (1.2) | 105 (1.2) | 85 (0.9) |
| Whitehall (UK)43 | 23 (4-24) | 10 074 | 8618 (85.5) | 1 456 (14.4) | 145 (1.4) | 71 (0.7) | 216 (2.2) | 245 (2.4) |
| WOLF Norrland (Sweden)45 | 12 (4-13) | 4468 | 4220 (94.4) | 248 (5.6) | 32 (0.7) | 18 (0.4) | 16 (0.4) | 66 (1.5) |
| WOLF Stockholm (Sweden)44 | 15 (2-16) | 5299 | 4840 (91.3) | 459 (8.7) | 51 (1.0) | 25 (0.5) | 62 (1.2) | 79 (1.5) |
| All | 12 (2-24) | 116 056 | 110 291 (95.0) | 5765 (5.0) | 522 (0.5) | 374 (0.3) | 1010 (0.9) | 865 (0.7) |
*See appendix 1 for study acronyms and details.
†1st-99th centile.
‡Participants with complete data on job strain, age, sex, socioeconomic position, BMI (not available in Still Working or COPSOQ-I), smoking, alcohol intake (not available in COPSOQ-I and an approximation in Still Working), and incident cancer events.