| Document ID (ISN) | 105054 |
| CIS number |
06-670 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0340-0131 - International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health |
| Year |
2005 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Ambroise D., Moulin J.J., Squinazi F., Protois J.C., Fontana J.M., Wild P. |
| Title |
Cancer mortality among municipal pest-control workers |
| Bibliographic information |
June 2005, Vol.78, No.5, p.387-393. Illus. 13 ref. |
| Internet access |
http://www.springerlink.com/media/hpb9jdrrqr5trjl3hjf3/contributions/g/0/1/7/g017734238785464.pdf [in English]
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| Abstract |
An historical cohort mortality study was carried out to investigate the hypothesis of a relationship between cancer occurrence and occupational exposure of municipal pest-control workers to a wide range of pesticides and other chemicals. The cohort comprised all subjects ever employed in a municipal pest-control service between 1979 and 1994. The follow-up period lasted from 1979 to 2000. The mortality rates of pest-control workers were compared with those of a regional population. A job exposure matrix was developed, which took into account four types of chemicals: formaldehyde, ethylene oxide, insecticides and rodenticides. A statistically significant excess of cancer mortality was found among these workers, increasing as a function of duration of employment. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
mortality; cancer; pesticides |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
formaldehyde; France; insecticides; job-exposure relation; ethylene oxide; cohort study; rodenticides |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | France |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Chemical safety
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| Browse category(ies) |
Agricultural chemicals
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