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I. Guseva Canu et al., « Lung cancer mortality in the French cohort of titanium dioxide workers: some aetiological insights. », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.1136/oemed-2020-106522
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Titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) is widely used in construction, food, cosmetic and medical industry. The current evidence on TiO 2 carcinogenicity in humans is considered inadequate. As French participants of the European cohort of TiO 2 workers exhibited an increase in mortality from lung cancer, we aimed at investigating whether TiO 2 exposure, co-exposures or smoking can explain this increase. We reanalysed the data of 833 French male workers (follow-up period 1968-1997) and used multiple imputation to complete their smoking status. We considered respirable TiO 2 dust as primary exposure of interest, estimated as continuous cumulative (mg/m 3 -year) and annual average (mg/m 3 ) concentrations and binary and 4-class categorical variables, with cut-off values of 0.3 and 2.4 mg/m 3 (the German and American occupational exposure limits, respectively). For each exposure metric, we estimated HRs and associated 95% CIs, using Cox regression models adjusted for calendar period, exposure duration and smoking. The fully adjusted model yielded a HR=3.7 (95% CI=0.79 to 17.95) for TiO 2 -exposed workers vs unexposed and a HR=27.33 (95% CI=4.35 to 171.84) for those exposed to >2.4 mg/m 3 as annual average concentration. Employment duration was negatively related with lung cancer mortality, therefore cumulative exposure had a small effect on mortality (HR=1.03 (95% CI=0.99 to 1.08) per mg/m 3 -year). This study suggests a positive relationship between TiO 2 exposure and lung cancer mortality in TiO 2 workers, whatever the exposure variable used, despite a limited statistical power in some models. The results question the current evidence on TiO 2 carcinogenicity in humans but need to be confirmed in other cohorts, using different statistical approaches.