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Document ID (ISN)74329
CIS number 00-111
ISSN - Serial title 1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Year 1998
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Weiland S.K., Chambless L., Werner B., Mundt K.A., Bucher A., Birk T., Keil U.
Title Workplace risk factors for cancer in the German rubber industry: Part 1 - Mortality from respiratory cancers; Part 2 - Mortality from non-respiratory cancers
Bibliographic information May 1998, Vol.55, No.5, p.317-332. Illus. 94 ref.
Abstract A cohort of active and retired male workers in the German rubber industry was followed for mortality from 1981 to 1991. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated for six work areas. SMRs for laryngeal cancer were highest in the material preparation area and were significant among workers employed for more than ten years in this area. Increased mortality rates from lung cancer were identified in three work areas and mortality from pleural cancer was increased in all six areas. Exposure to asbestos is one risk factor for the excess deaths from lung cancer. Mortality from several non-respiratory cancers was also increased in several work areas.
Descriptors (primary) rubber industry; cancer; occupation disease relation
Descriptors (secondary) leukaemia; oesophageal carcinoma; asbestos; laryngeal cancer; mortality; bladder tumour; length of exposure; lung cancer; gastrointestinal cancer; prostatic cancer; cohort study; risk factors; pharyngeal cancer
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceGermany; USA
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Rubber industry