2020

1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION Cohort name   Belgian Occupational Cancer database - BOCCA Country   Belgium Name   Lode Godderis Institution   KU Leuven Email   lode.godderis@kuleuven.com Do you want to add another Principal Investigator of the Cohort   Add another Principal Investigator of the cohort Name   Sofie Vandenbroeck Institution   IDEWE Email   sofie.vandenbroeck@idewe.be Website   https://www.komoptegenkanker.be/projecten/belgian-occupational-cancer-bocca-database-om-werkgerelateerde-kankers-op-te-sporen-en-te-voorkomen Name of committee   UZ/KU Leuven Contact Principal Investigator (name)   Lode Godderis Participation in pooled analyses   The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses). Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort   To investigate the relationship between occupational exposures, jobs, and sectors on the one hand and cancers on the other hand. Study design (please select as many as appropriate)   Retrospective cohort Nested case-control / Case-cohort Source population (please select as many as appropriate)   Other Specify: Other   adult working population Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)   Internal study population Inclusion criteria   All individuals: 2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)   Hospital / physician diagnoses Hospital / Physician diagnoses (specify)   Cancer diagnosis 3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)   Registry-based Occupational history/time frame   Longest Occupational coding performed   No Industry (specify coding system used)   ISCO-08 Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)   Expert assessment Main categories   Dusts and fibres Solvents Metals and metal oxides Other chemicals Biological factors Physical agents Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related Psychosocial domains Organisation of work including working time Comments   All exposure data are nominal: 0 if not exposed, 1 if exposed (based on registration in medical file of external service of occupational health). 4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)   Medical records Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)   Medical records Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)   Morbidity Diagnostic groups based on ICD10   C + D Neoplasms Other (specify) Other (specify)   Cancer diagnosis Other health related outcomes   Quality of life/wellbeing Other (specify) Specify: Other   tumour type (ICD-10), clinical stage, pathological stage 5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS Comments   No biological samples were collected. 6. Other Information   Demographics Physical exercise Smoking Other (specify) Specify: Other   Hypertension