Tom Sorahan

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Tom Sorahan (born May 7, 1950 ) is a British epidemiologist , occupational and environmental medicine.

Sorahan first studied physics at the University of Birmingham with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and was then in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Social Medicine) of the university as an assistant to Pat Prior and collaborator on studies on cancer registries. In 1982 he received his doctorate (Ph. D.) with a study on cancer risks of workers in a factory for nickel-cadmium batteries. Since then he has devoted himself to epidemiological studies on cancer risks in the work environment of various trades and industries and became a Senior Research Fellow in 1991, Senior Lecturer in 1993 , Reader in 1997 and Professor of Epidemiology in the Workplace (Occupational Epidemiology) in the Institute of Applied Health Research of the Faculty of Medicine in 2000 .

Examples of his work are epidemiological studies of 80,000 employees in the UK electricity industry regarding the dangers of electromagnetic fields (although, unlike a previous US study, he found no link to increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors) and of 50,000 employees in the oil processing chemical industry Benzene Risks. With regard to benzene, Sorahan had previously found a doubled risk of acute myeloid leukemia for workers in various industries when examining employees in the 1950s and 1960s , but no longer in his later follow-up study, which only included the oil industry. He is also investigating the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation in the field of mobile communications.

Further studies concerned lung cancer in workers exposed to soot and the like, in workers in nickel / chrome processing, bladder cancer in contact with MBT and workers in contact with polyurethane foam, in the semiconductor industry, the rubber and tire industry and other areas of the chemical industry , for chlorotoluenes and in steel foundries. In a reassessment of the AHS study (US Agricultural Health Study, study of around 57,000 people who came into contact with pesticides), he came to the conclusion in 2015 that there is no connection between multiple myeloma and glyphosate . This point was left open in a study from 2005 that otherwise found no increased cancer risk with glyphosate.

It also deals with the epidemiology of cancer in children, especially if the parents were smokers or were exposed to ionizing radiation.

In 1999 he received a D.Sc. in Occupational Health in Birmingham.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in Birmingham.

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  • Sorahan: Bladder cancer risks in workers manufacturing chemicals for the rubber industry . Occup Med., Volume 58, 2008, pp. 496-501.
  • Sorahan: Cancer risks in chemical production workers exposed to 2-mercaptobenzothiazole . Occup Environ Med., Volume 66, 2009, 269-273.
  • Sorahan: Lung cancer mortality in arsenic-exposed workers from a cadmium recovery plant . Occup Environ Med., Volume 59, 2009, pp. 264-266.
  • Dost A, Straughan JK, Sorahan T .: Cancer incidence and exposure to 4,4'-methylene-bis-ortho-chloroaniline (MbOCA) . Occup Med., Vol. 59, 2009, pp. 402-405.
  • Hara T, Hoshuyama T, Takahashi K, Delgermaa V, Sorahan T .: Cancer risk among Japanese chromium platers, 1976-2003. Scand J Work Environ Health, Volume 36, 2010, pp. 216-221.
  • Sorahan T .: Cadmium, arsenic and lung cancer: the bigger picture. Occup Med., Volume 60, 2010, p. 236.
  • Ward EM, Schulte PA, Straif K, Sorahan T, Zeise L, Cogliano VJ., U. a .: Research recommendations for selected IARC-classified agents . Environ Health Perspect, Volume 118, 2010, pp. 1355-1362
  • Park EK, Takahashi K, Hoshuyama T, Cheng TJ, Delgermaa V, Le GV, Sorahan T .: Global magnitude of reported and unreported mesothelioma . Environ Health Perspect, Volume 119, 2011, pp. 514-518
  • Sorahan: Cancer incidence in UK electricity generation and transmission workers, 1973-2008 . Occup. Med., Vol. 62, 2012, pp. 496-505, PMID 22949586
  • Sorahan: Magnetic fields and brain tumor risks in UK electricity supply workers , Occup. Med., Volume 64, 2014, pp. 157-165, PMID 24562302
  • Sorahan, N. Mohammed: Neurodegenerative disease risks and magnetic field exposures in UK electricity supply workers , Occup. Med., Volume 64, 2014, pp. 454-460
  • Sorahan: Multiple myeloma and glyphosate use: a reanalysis of US Agricultural Health Study (AHS) data , Int J Environ Res Public Health, Volume 12, 2015, pp. 1548-1559, PMID 25635915
  • Sorahan, N. Mohammed: Incidence of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in UK petroleum distribution workers , Int J Environ Res Public Health., Volume 13, 2016, pii: E474, PMID 27164123
  • Gary M. Williams, Marilyn Aardema, John Acquavella, Sir Colin Berry, David Brusick, Michele M. Burns, Joao Lauro Viana de Camargo, David Garabrant, Helmut A. Greim, Larry D. Kier, David J. Kirkland, Gary Marsh, Keith R. Solomon, Tom Sorahan, Ashley Roberts, Douglas L. Weed: A review of the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate by four independent expert panels and comparison to the IARC assessment , Critical Reviews in Toxicology. Volume 46, S1, 2016, pp. 3-20, PMID 27677666

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AJ De Roos et al. a., Cancer incidence among glyphosate-exposed pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Health Study, Environ Health Perspect., Volume 113, 2005, pp. 49-54. PMID 15626647
personal data
SURNAME Sorahan, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British epidemiologist, occupational and environmental doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1950