Occupational and environmental mesotheliomas due to crocidolite mining activities in Wittenoom, Western Australia
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Malignant pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomas in former miners and millers of crocidolite at Wittenoom, Western Australia.
AIMS To report the number of malignant pleural and peritoneal mesotheliomas that have occurred in former Wittenoom crocidolite workers to the end of 2000, and to compare this with earlier predictions. METHODS A group of 6493 men and 415 women who had worked at the former Wittenoom crocidolite mine and mill at some time between 1943 and 1966 have been followed up throughout Australia and Italy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0355-3140,1795-990X
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.35