Cost burden and resource utilization in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps.

Objectives/hypothesis: Establish treatment patterns and economic burden in US patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) versus without chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Determine comparative costs of subgroups with high clinical burden.

Study Design: Observational, retrospective, case-control study.

Health Care Resource Utilization and Costs Among Adults with Atopic Dermatitis in the United States: A Claims-Based Analysis.

Background: Data on health care resource utilization (HCRU) and costs for patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) are lacking.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine HCRU and costs associated with AD in US adults.

Methods: This retrospective study identified patients with AD from the Truven Health Marketscan Commercial Claims and Encounters database during 2013 based on ≥2 claims with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision code 691.

Occupational exposure to chlorinated and petroleum solvents and mycosis fungoides.

Objective: To evaluate the potential association between occupational exposure to chlorinated and petroleum solvents and mycosis fungoides (MF).

Methods: A questionnaire on lifetime job history was administered to 100 patients diagnosed with MF and 2846 controls. Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated as the measure of the association between exposure to each specific solvent and MF.

Breast cancer risk by occupation and industry: analysis of the CECILE study, a population-based case-control study in France.

Background: It has been suggested that certain occupational exposures may play a role in breast cancer etiology. The recognition of high-risk occupations may give clues about potential mammary carcinogens in the work place.

Methods: We conducted a population-based case-control study in France including 1,230 breast cancer cases and 1,315 population controls with detailed information on lifetime work history.

Occupation and occupational exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in male breast cancer: a case-control study in Europe.

Objectives: Male breast cancer is a rare disease of largely unknown aetiology. In addition to genetic and hormone-related risk factors, a large number of environmental chemicals are suspected of playing a role in breast cancer. The identification of occupations or occupational exposures associated with an increased incidence of breast cancer in men may help to identify mammary carcinogens in the environment.

Increased frequency of hematopoietic malignancies in relatives of patients with lymphoid neoplasms: a French case-control study.

Lymphoid neoplasms (LNs), including non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL), lymphoproliferative syndrome (LPS) and multiple myeloma (MM), are among the most frequent cancers ( approximately 17,000 new cases per year in France), after those related to smoking. LNs were investigated using the data from the ENGELA study. ENGELA is a multicenter hospital-based case-control study that was carried out in France over the period September 2000-December 2004.