Gastric cancer and coal mine dust exposure. A case-control study.

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• Personal Author:
  Ames RG
• Description:
  A case control study of gastric cancer in coal miners was conducted. Forty six cases of gastric cancer and 138 comparisons drawn from four NIOSH coal miner cohorts were used. Three series of age matched miners were developed for each gastric cancer case: miners who died from lung cancer, miners who died from cancer other than gastric or lung cancer, and miners who died from noncancer, nonaccident causes. Odds ratios (ORs) were used as a measure of the relative risk of gastric cancer. ORs for gastric cancer were computed as a function of years of exposure to coal mine dust, cigarette smoking, or history of coal workers' pneumoconiosis. Coal mine dust exposure itself was a slightly elevated gastric cancer risk. When the coal mine dust exposure risk was examined under control by cigarette smoking status, the risk was statistically increased in miners with prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke. Coal workers' pneumoconiosis was not found to be a gastric cancer risk. The author concludes that among United States coal miners, an occupational gastric cancer risk due to exposure to coal mine dust exists, but only when a life style feature, cigarette smoking, is also present. When prolonged coal mine dust exposure in conjunction with prolonged cigarette smoking occurs, the risk of gastric cancer is statistically significant. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Case Reports Coal Coal Mining Digestive System Digestive System Diseases Epidemiology Mining Neoplasms Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Smokers Tobacco Products

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• Keywords:
  Cancer-rates Case-studies Cigarette-smoking Coal-miners Disease-incidence NIOSH-Author Risk-analysis Risk-factors Stomach-cancer
• ISSN:
  0008-543X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALOSH - Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  52
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00168032
• Citation:
  Cancer 1983 Oct; 52(7):1346-1350
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1984
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Cancer
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b7304c1e1637976207a5231cd63cec1380cc086a836ebe7c18b341760b097900e1464373fc117d02dab786a0c3f73e533bd5b91937ce68feb39690640b1b2b8c
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185157/cdc_185157_DS1.pdf
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