Healthcare professionals face significantly higher odds of being diagnosed with breast cancer compared to other women, according to a new large-scale longitudinal study published Monday.
The elevated risk was also associated with age, job tenure and professional licenses including physician, pharmacist, registered nurse, midwife, technologist and psychologist. These findings are based on more than 35 years of population-based data incorporating 830,000-plus Taiwanese women and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
“Occupational health policy intervention may be necessary to further prevent breast cancer risk among female health professionals,” Cheng-Ting Shen MD, with the Department of Family Medicine at Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital in Taiwan, and co-authors concluded. “Regular ultrasonography for younger women or mammography for women aged >45 years may be necessary in the annual labor physical examination for female health professionals,” they urged.
To reach their conclusions, Shen et al. tapped four nationwide databases in Taiwan with information spanning 1979-2016. That included nearly 278,000 healthcare professionals alongside more than 555,000 women working outside of the medical realm. Researchers compared cancer incidence between the two groups and stratified by birth age, job tenure and other categories.
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