Rates of congenital anomalies and other adverse birth outcomes in an offspring cohort of registered nurses from British Columbia, Canada.

Objectives: Although there is concern that occupational exposures in some nursing professions may confer reproductive risks, there are few relevant studies. Our objective is to determine if a cohort of female registered nurses (RN) from British Columbia (BC), in comparison to BC women in general, have elevated rates of congenital anomalies, stillbirths, low birth weight, or prematurity in their offspring.

Methods: A cohort of RNs from BC was linked to Vital Statistics birth records and the BC Health Status Registry (HSR) between the years 1986 and 2000.

Occupational female breast and reproductive cancer mortality in British Columbia, Canada, 1950-94.

Background: It has been postulated that recent increases in female breast and reproductive cancers may be, in part, attributable to occupational exposures.

Aim: We aimed to identify occupational associations with female breast and reproductive cancer mortality among women living in British Columbia (BC), Canada.

Methods: Case-control methods were used to calculate mortality odds ratios for occupation and cause of death information obtained from the provincial death registry.

Identifying related cancer types based on their incidence among people with multiple cancers.

Background: There are several reasons that someone might be diagnosed with more than one primary cancer. The aim of this analysis was to determine combinations of cancer types that occur more often than expected. The expected values in previous analyses are based on age-and-gender-adjusted risks in the population.

Mortality among 5-year survivors of cancer diagnosed during childhood or adolescence in British Columbia, Canada.

Background: Ongoing monitoring of late mortality among survivors of a childhood or adolescent cancer is essential to appropriately evaluate risk in more recent cohorts and with longer follow-up. We examined overall and cause-specific mortality in a population-based cohort of 2,354 individuals diagnosed with a cancer or tumor prior to 20 years of age between 1970 and 1995 in British Columbia (BC), Canada who survived at least 5 years.

Procedure: Late deaths in a survivor cohort ascertained from the BC Cancer Registry were identified using death registrations.

Physical and emotional health effects and social consequences after participation in a low-fat, high-carbohydrate dietary trial for more than 5 years.

Purpose: Little is known about the potential adverse effects of interventions to reduce dietary fat. We examined the physical and emotional health effects, and social consequences experienced by women at high risk for breast cancer who had participated in a low-fat diet intervention, randomized, controlled trial for at least 5 years.

Methods: Participants in the Canadian Diet and Breast Cancer Prevention Trial from British Columbia were mailed a survey questionnaire that included the validated Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ), and a series of questions on health-related and social constructs.