INTEROCC – Occupational Exposure and Brain Cancer

Chief Investigators

Funding

IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer)

Summary

Completed in 2011, the INTEROCC study examined the association of occupational electro magnetic field (EMF) and chemical exposures and the risk of brain tumour, notably glioma and meninglioma within the context of the recently completed international collaborative study of mobile phone use and brain tumours, the INTERPHONE Study, which collected occupational information for more than 10,000 subjects.

Dr Geza Benke undertook the coding of job histories and related exposure assessment tasks of the Australian INTERPHONE subjects for this project.