| Document ID (ISN) | 42609 |
| CIS number |
84-1676 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0355-3140 - Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health |
| Year |
1983 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Ames R.G., Gamble J.F. |
| Title |
Lung cancer, stomach cancer, and smoking status among coal miners - A preliminary test of a hypothesis |
| Bibliographic information |
Oct. 1983, Vol.9, No.5, p.443-448. 11 ref. |
| Abstract |
A case-referent study which compared 46 white male coal miners who died from stomach cancer with 46 age-matched miners who died from lung cancer, and with reference miners who died from other cancers or from non-cancer, non-accident causes failed to confirm the Meyer hypothesis that inhaled carcinogens are a risk for both stomach and lung cancer, with stomach cancer occurring in persons with non-impaired lungs and lung cancer in persons with impaired lungs. The data suggest that airway obstruction may be a precondition for stomach cancer and normal pulmonary function a precondition for lung cancer, which is a reverse relationship than that postulated. For coal miners with airway obstruction, more years of coal mine dust exposure posed a slightly elevated stomach cancer risk while for miners with normal ventilatory function, cigarette smoking posed a disproportionately elevated lung cancer risk. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
smoking; coal mining; gastrointestinal cancer; lung cancer |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
respirable dust; carcinogenic effects; comparative study; respiratory impairment; inhalation toxicity |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Mining and quarrying
Smoking
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Gastrointestinal diseases
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