Cancer experience of men exposed to inhalation of chemicals or to combustion products.

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• Personal Author:
  Bross ID ; Houten L ; Viadana E
• Description:
  Statistical analysis of the relevant subseries from an overall series of about 17,000 patients admitted at the Roswell Memorial Park Institute between 1956 and 1965 revealed that the occupations most highly associated with an increased incidence of cancers belong to the chemical subgroup. These occupations are barbers, operatives in the chemical industry, operatives in the leather industry, painters and printers. The occupations related to the inhalation of combustion products are: bakers, deliverymen and routemen, kitchen workers, locomotive engineers, mechanics and repairmen, stationary engineers and firemen. Elevated relative risks showed up in the chemical subgroup among barbers (larynx cancer), among operatives in the chemical industry (larynx cancer and stomach cancer), among operatives in the leather industry (oral cancer, pharynx cancer, larynx cancer and bladder cancer), among painters (esophagus and stomach) and among print workers (cancer of the oral cavity and and pharynx). The occupations in the combustion subgroups appeared less associated with an increased incidence of cancers than those in the chemical subgroup. Moderately elevated relative risks appeared among bakers in malignant lymphomas, among bus drivers, taxi drivers and truck drivers in cancer of the pancreas, among locomotive engineers in cancer of the buccal cavity and pharynx and lymphomas and among mechanics and repairmen in cancers of the nose, pancreas and prostate. However, only a few relative risks were statistically significant such as skin cancer (other than melanoma, age group 14- 60) and prostate cancer in mechanics and repairmen. (Contract No. 210-75-0025) [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Digestive System Digestive System Diseases Epidemiology Food Handling Food Industry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Neoplasms Occupational Health Paint Printing Railroads Safety Skin Diseases Urogenital Diseases Urogenital System

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• Keywords:
  Chemical-processing-industry Contract-210-75-0025 Esophageal-cancer Food-handlers Gastrointestinal-system-disorders JOCMA7 NIOSH-Contract NIOSH-Publication Painting Printing-industry Prostate-cancer Railroad-industry Reproductive-system-disorders Skin-disorders

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• ISSN:
  0096-1736
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00070838
• Citation:
  J Occup Med 1976 Dec; 18(12):787-792
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• NORA Priority Area:
  Reproductive System Disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7553c24b741da35e83e65c37fb382698f904849fe4f89809f66d5279f7be85af37b0ae88162b4bc074088af3d32d82d05f21681d1532ec59082b333029de6fdf
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/184163/cdc_184163_DS1.pdf
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