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Our aim was to determine the magnitude of occupational causes of CCA in a tertiary hospital in northeastern Thailand. We conducted a cross-sectional study with a sample of 220 patients between March and November 2021. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the findings. Clinical information and telephone interviews were used to explore significant occupational histories. An occupational consensus meeting was held with two occupational physicians, an industrial hygienist, and a hepatobiliary surgeon to decide on the final diagnosis. The response rate was 90.9% (200\/220). Based on the medical records and telephone interviews, researchers found that 11 participants had significant exposure. After occupational consensus, it was agreed that the eleven had possible occupational causes, 5.5% (11\/200)\u201354.5% (6\/11) being due to asbestos fibers, 45.5% (5\/11) due to dichloromethane, and 9.1% (1\/11) due to 1,2-dichloropropane. Only 4% (8\/200) had occupational histories collected by their treating physicians. Taken together, occupationally related CCA appears to have been underestimated, so improving occupational history taking is needed to properly identify and classify work-related CCA\u2014both for patient treatment and occupational hazard prevention.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cancers14102386","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]],"date-time":"2022-05-12T21:46:53Z","timestamp":1652392013000},"page":"2386","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["The Proportion of Occupationally Related Cholangiocarcinoma: A Tertiary Hospital Study in Northeastern Thailand"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Anantapat","family":"Seeherunwong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community, Family and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9295-6760","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Naesinee","family":"Chaiear","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Community, Family and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Narong","family":"Khuntikeo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"},{"name":"Cholangiocarcinoma Screening and Care Program (CASCAP), Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2906-9832","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chatchai","family":"Ekpanyaskul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok 10110, Thailand"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"307","DOI":"10.2486\/indhealth.53-307","article-title":"Eliminating occupational cancer","volume":"53","author":"Takala","year":"2015","journal-title":"Ind. 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