P021 Heat working environment and risk of breast, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, colorectal, prostate, and stomach cancer in the MCC-spain case control study

Occupational exposure to heat can affect the absorption of carcinogenic chemicals into the body, and the metabolism of sexual hormones. We explored the association between occupational exposure to heat and breast, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, colorectal, prostate, and stomach cancer in the MCC-Spain population based case-control study. Methods The analyses were based on 3047 controls, and 1499 breast, 1539 colorectal, 332 LLC, 1070 prostate, and 382 stomach cancer cases. Heat working environment from either natural or artificial sources was assessed with the MatEmEsp job-exposure matrix. Logistic regression models accounting for education, sex, geographic area, BMI (colorectal, prostate),…