Colon and Stomach Cancer Mortality Among Automotive Wood Model Makers (Authors’ Response)

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• Personal Author:
  Fingerhut, Marilyn A. ; Halperin, William E. ; McCammon CS Jr. ; Robinson CF ; Roscoe, Robert J. ; Schober SE ; Steenland, Kyle
• Description:
  In a response to a letter to the editor by R. Y. Demers et al (see NIOSHTIC record NIOSH-00241135) on their article entitled Colon and Stomach Cancer Mortality among Automotive Wood Model Makers (Journal of Occupational Medicine, Vol. 34, pages 759-768; see NIOSHTIC record NIOSH-00209392), the authors presented additional information and discussed some of their design elements. They stressed that 79% of the cohort had at least 5 years of employment in a studied facility. They addressed the possibility of changing exposures by including separate tests for associations between mortality from colon and stomach cancer and wood model making exposures after 1955. No association was found. In response to the concern that wood dust may have been a poor choice as the potential carcinogen, the authors noted that they also analyzed the duration of time employed in wood model making because other potential carcinogens in addition to wood dust may have been present. They noted that about 90% of the jobs with wood dust as their predominant exposure also exposed workers to plastics and solvents. They also tested for associations between mortality and the duration employed in this field. All the odds ratios they calculated either for wood dust or for the cumulative duration employed in wood model making were less than 1.0 and nonsignificant. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Carcinogens Digestive System Digestive System Diseases Dust Epidemiology Mortality Neoplasms Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Wood

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• Keywords:
  Cancer-rates Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Mortality-surveys NIOSH-Author Organic-dusts Risk-analysis Risk-factors Stomach-cancer Wood-dusts Woodworkers Woodworking-industry

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• ISSN:
  0096-1736
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  346-348
• Volume:
  35
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00241136
• Citation:
  J Occup Med 1993 Apr; 35(4):346-348
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198076/cdc_198076_DS1.pdf
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