The risk of developing health and neck cancers is doubled if you work in construction, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Stirling’s Occupational and Environmental Health Research found men who had been diagnosed with head and neck cancer were twice as likely to have worked in construction as participants in a control group.

Stirling University news release . Sarnia Observer. James T Brophy, Margaret M Keith and others. Cancer and construction: What occupational histories in a Canadian community reveal, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health (IJOEH), volume 13, page 32-38, 2007.