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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