Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 23/01/2024
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