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ID (ISN) del documento49950
Número CIS 88-1206
ISSN - Título de la serie 0003-9896 - Archives of Environmental Health
Año 1987
Número de serie
Autor(es) Malker H.S.R., Gemne G.
Título A register-epidemiology study on cancer among Swedish printing industry workers
Información bibliográfica Mar.-Apr. 1987, Vol.42, No.2, p.73-82. Illus. 63 ref.
Resumen The Swedish Cancer Environment Registry, a population-based Cancer Registry, has been supplemented with 1960 census data on occupation and industry. This information system was used to generate hypotheses on occupational high-cancer-risk groups and to discuss some methodological problems connected with register epidemiology. By successive exclusion of parts of the original population of printing industry workers with excess risks of lung and cervical cancer, it was possible to consider similarities and differences between subgroups. The excess risk of cervical cancer disappeared when gainfully employed persons and blue-collar workers were used as controls. After the exclusion procedure there was an excess risk of lung cancer among typographers and lithographers in printing enterprises, especially in some birth-cohorts, due possibly to the working environment.
Descriptores (primarios) Suecia; cáncer de pulmón; cáncer cerebral; imprenta
Descriptores (secundarios) encuesta epidemiológica
Tipo de documento D - Artículos periódicos
Tema(s) Papel, artes gráficas
Broad subject area(s) Industrias y ocupaciones
Navegación por categoria(s) Printing, photography and photocopying industry
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Diseases of the nervous system