Some risky factors of cancer in Bac Giang town

ABSTRACT

The interview was conducted with 1.500 households in Bac Giang city and a control group of 1.500 households in Tan Yen rural district. Secondary date were analysed. Matching the incidence of cancers and some factors of enviromental pollution in Bac Giang city territory, showed that the smokers had got a risk of cancer 1.56 folds higher than not smoking subjects, alcohol abuse subjects had got a risk of cancer 1.89 folds higher than who did not use alcohol. The subjects exposed to noxious chemicals had got a risk of cancer 1.06 folds higher than who did not. The subjects living in polluted enviroment had got the risk of cancer 1.06 folds higher than who did not.