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Table 1.

Prevalence of exposure of the occupational agent included in the analysis and relative risk (RR) for cancers associated with them.

Agent	Prevalence of Exposure (%) *	Cancer	RR (95% CI)	Reference for RR
Silica dust, crystalline	2.1	Lung	1.20 (1.12–1.28)	Steenland 2001 [8]
Asbestos	0.87 ^¶	Lung	1.48 (1.44–1.52)	Goodman 1999 [9]
		Mesothelioma	NA	ReNaM 2022 [10]
		Ovary	1.77 (1.37–1.28)	Camargo 2011 [11]
Strong inorganic acid mist	0.45	Larynx	1.21 (0.87–1.67)	IARC 2012 ^† vol 100F [12]
PAH	1.01	Larynx	1.30 (1.07–1.58)	Rota et al., 2014 ** [13]
		Lung	1.20 (1.02–1.41)	Rota et al., 2014 ** [13]
		Bladder	1.18 (1.01–1.37)	Rota et al., 2014 ** [13]
Diesel exhaust	4.3	Lung	1.33 (1.21–1.46)	Lippsett 1999 [14]
Diesel exhaust	4.3	Bladder	1.04 (1.01–1.07)	Meta-analysis of cohort studies on occupational diesel exhaust exposure conducted by Collatuzzo et al.
Wood dust	2.33	Sinonasal	3.1 (1.6–5.6)	Demers 1995 [15]
Benzene	1.53	Leukemia	1.40 (1.23–1.57)	Khalade 2010 [16]
Formaldehyde	0.94	Nasopharynx	1.33 (0.69–2.56)	Bosetti 2008 [17]
Formaldehyde	0.94	Leukemia	1.39 (1.15–1.68)	Bosetti 2008 [17]
TCE	0.28	Kidney	1.32 (1.17–1.50)	Karami 2012 [18]
Arsenic	0.27	Lung	2.04 (1.90–2.19)	Hayes 1997 ** [19]
Chromium	1.30	Sinonasal	8.0 (4.3–13.6)	IARC 2012 ^† vol 100C [20]
Chromium	1.30	Lung	1.41 (1.35–1.47)	Cole 2005 [21]
Cadmium	0.40	Lung	1.42 (0.91–2.23)	Chen 2016 [22]
Nickel	0.81	Sinonasal	2.8 (1.2–5.5)	Hayes 1997 ** [19]
Nickel	0.81	Lung	1.12 (1.05–1.20)	Behrens 2018 [23]
UV radiation	5.84	Melanoma	1.18 (1.01–1.38)	Togawa 2021 ^‡ [24]

Notes: PAH = polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; TCE = tetrachloroethylene. * Source: CAREX paper. ^¶ Direct estimate of the attributable fraction (AF) from the ReNaM (AF = 0.866). ^† Meta-analysis of studies included in IARC Monographs. ^‡ Results for farmers ** Meta-analysis of studies included in the reference.