| Document ID (ISN) | 59994 |
| CIS number |
93-498 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0271-3586 - American Journal of Industrial Medicine |
| Year |
1992 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Berger J., Manz A. |
| Title |
Cancer of the stomach and the colon-rectum among workers in a coke gas plant |
| Bibliographic information |
Dec. 1992, Vol.22, No.6, p.825-834. 26 ref. |
| Abstract |
4,908 male workers of the Hamburg (Germany) gas plant, employed for 10 or more years during the period 1 January 1900 to 31 December 1989, were traced for cancer mortality. Based on their jobs, they were grouped into three subcohorts: gas furnace workers, workers in other parts of the plant, and white-collar workers. Despite the general "healthy worker effect", gas furnace workers showed a significant incidence of cancer of all sites (standardised mortality ratio (SMR) = 186), particularly cancers of the lung (SMR=288), stomach (SMR=177), and the colon-rectum (SMR=184). In comparison with the death rates of white-collar workers, the manual workers in other parts of the plant also showed an excess of cancer mortality for cancer of these sites. The reason for this excess seems to be due to working conditions. The results contribute to the current evidence that exposure to coal carbonisation fumes causes not only lung cancer, but also cancers of the stomach and colon-rectum. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
rectal cancer; mortality; lung cancer; exposure; coke ovens; coke oven gas; gastrointestinal cancer |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
occupational diseases; Germany (Federal Republic of); neoplasms; epidemiologic study; white-collar workers; conditions of work |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | Germany |
| Subject(s) |
Chemicals, plastics and rubber
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Gastrointestinal diseases
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