How would you design an initial study to investigate potential associations between occupational exposures and increased risk of lung cancer?


Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/onliiuxo/public_html/wp-content/themes/betheme/functions/theme-functions.php on line 1490

Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/onliiuxo/public_html/wp-content/themes/betheme/functions/theme-functions.php on line 1495

How would you design an initial study to investigate potential associations between occupational exposures and increased risk of lung cancer?


Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/onliiuxo/public_html/wp-content/themes/betheme/functions/theme-functions.php on line 1490

Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/onliiuxo/public_html/wp-content/themes/betheme/functions/theme-functions.php on line 1495

You are a public health official in a medium-sized city with several large industrial enterprises. The workers in these enterprises are provided with medical care through a uniform insurance system, which means that all current and retired workers are likely to get health care from the same hospital. A hospital doctor calls you and expresses concern about the large number of lung cancers among the workers. How would you design an initial study to investigate potential associations between occupational exposures and increased risk of lung cancer?