Prostate Cancer in Firemen: Early Diagnosis Because of Increased Diagnostic Pressure?

Summary

Firefighters, police, military personnel and pilots are all shown to have a higher incidence of prostate cancer than the general population. A possible explanation for this is that these four groups of employees need regular mandatory health-checkups. If these checkups increase the chances of having a PSA or DRE performed one could expect the workers in question to have a higher probability than the general population of being diagnosed with prostate cancer. If this is the case the four groups should have cancers that are lower grade and have better survival. The investigators wish to examine this by comparing the four groups with a control group made up of all other workers with regards to prognostic factors at the time of diagnosis and survival rates. This will be done by extracting data from the Cancer Registry of Norway, coupled with employment data from Statistics Norway. This study is also a part of a project on cancer in firefighters. If the prostate cancers in firefighters differ significantly from the other three specified groups, this could point to an exposure specific for firefighters, e.g. fire smoke, as an etiologic factor.

Conditions

• Prostate Cancer

Interventions

OTHER

None, observational study

None, observational study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Extrastiftelsen

  collaborator OTHER

• The National Institute of Occupational Health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Fagforbundet

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Gjensidige Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Norwegian Cancer Society

  collaborator OTHER

• Norwegian Firefighters Fight Cancer

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Oslo University Hospital

  lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-02-01

Primary Completion

2020-02-02

Completion

2020-02-02

Countries

• Norway

Study Locations