Neoplasia in the wood and pulp industry.

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• Personal Author:
  Milham S Jr.
• Description:
  An occupational mortality analysis is made of men working in the wood products industry (loggers, pulp and paper millworkers, plywood millworkers and sawmill workers) from the records of nearly 300,000 deaths filed in Washington State from 1950 to 1971. Loggers are shown to have excess mortality in cancer of the stomach and prostate and in leukemia. Professional foresters are shown to have excess mortality for cancer of digestive organs, peritoneum, respiratory tract, lymphatic system and hematopoietic tissue. Mill workers have excess mortality in cancer of the small intestine and of the lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues, stomach, testis and pancreas. Carpenters have excess mortality in stomach cancer and leukemia. The data are interpreted to mean that the work environments in the wood products industry contain carcinogens. Differences between these data and those from England suggest a possibility due to the type of wood. Also, the excess gastric cancer suggests that the wood particles are ingested or inhaled and swallowed. The hematopoietic cancer suggests that physical and chemical breakdown products of wood may be carcinogenic. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Forestry Hazardous Substances Hematologic Diseases Hematopoietic System Lymphatic System Neoplasms Occupational Health Paper Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety

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• Keywords:
  Blood-disorders Hazards Hematopoietic-system Intestinal-cancer Lymphatic-cancer Lymphatic-system-disorders NIOSH-Contract NIOSH-Publication Paper-manufacturing-industry Pulp-industry Respiratory-system-disorders Toxic-substances

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• ISBN:
  9780890720509
• ISSN:
  0077-8923
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  294-300
• Volume:
  271
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00056766
• Citation:
  Ann NY Acad Sci 1976 May; 271(1):294-300
• Contact Point Address:
  Samuel Milham, Jr, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Olympia, Washington 98504
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c36e1611934da5e7839ec30cf53229ea4797af81d169949e44b01289889bc48c1abc1feb9dbcdb4f13de96d047868263d80089526167f32da627c93e5173d674
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/184110/cdc_184110_DS1.pdf
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