Risk of lung cancer among masons in Iceland.
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Risk of lung cancer among masons in Iceland.
OBJECTIVES To estimate the risk of gastrointestinal cancer and lung cancer in a cohort of masons exposed to cement and hexavalent chromium by a follow up in the Icelandic Cancer Registry. METHODS The cohort, 1172 men, was defined as those who had served their apprenticeship and were fully licensed as masons (cement finishers) in Iceland, were born after 1880 and were alive in 1955. The men we...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.54.3.184