Montreal, Canada: When we think of high-risk jobs, women who work in beauty salons such as hairdressers or beauticians are not far off in our minds, but they are surprisingly more likely to develop ovarian cancer than other women. It happens a lot.
According to a report published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, women who had worked in beauty salons, particularly as barbers or beauticians for a decade or more, had three times the risk of ovarian cancer. Is.
However, there are other occupations that may carry the risk of the aforementioned cancers such as accounts, construction, textiles, and sales and retail.
Anita Kaushik, a co-author of the study and a researcher in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Montreal in Canada, said employment in certain occupations may be associated with increased risks of ovarian cancer. For the study, his team identified about 490 women with the disease in Montreal between 2010 and 2016 and compared them with about 900 who did not have cancer.
Details of any employment for at least six months were taken from the women. The researchers then used Canada’s Job Exposure Matrix to calculate participants’ exposure to specific chemical agents in the workplace, which yielded the above results.
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