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Document ID (ISN)64666
CIS number 95-1009
ISSN - Serial title 0962-7480 - Occupational Medicine
Year 1995
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Lagast H., Tomenson J., Stringer D.A.
Title Polypropylene production and colorectal cancer: A review of the epidemiological evidence
Bibliographic information Apr. 1995, Vol.45, No.2, p.69-74. 30 ref.
Abstract Early epidemiological studies of polypropylene production workers and carpet manufacturing employees who use polypropylene reported a significant excess of colorectal cancer. Recent updates of these two studies have found no continuation of this excess, thereby indicating that the earlier observations reflected the chance nature of a space-time cluster. Investigations of polypropylene workers in a number of countries found no association with colorectal cancer. Taken together, the epidemiological evidence and the absence of toxicological data do not support a causal association between polypropylene and colorectal cancer.
Descriptors (primary) polypropylene; rectal cancer
Descriptors (secondary) epidemiologic study; literature survey
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceBelgium; United Kingdom
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Chemical safety
Browse category(ies) Gastrointestinal diseases