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A cluster of male breast cancer in office workers
Author(s) -
Milham Samuel
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.20027
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , cluster (spacecraft) , occupational exposure , office workers , cancer , oncology , family medicine , environmental health , computer science , economics , programming language , operations management
Three cases of male breast cancer were diagnosed among a small group of men who worked in a basement office of a multi‐story office building. This office was adjacent to an electrical switchgear room which generated high magnetic fields in their work space. The risk of male breast cancer in this group was increased about 100‐fold (observe three cases, expect 0.03 cases; P < 0.00001). Since 1991, 15 epidemiologic studies have associated male breast cancer with exposure to electromagnetic field. Am. J. Ind. Med. 46:86–87, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.