Risk of Mesothelioma Among Women Living Near Chrysotile Mines Versus US EPA Asbestos Risk Model: Preliminary Findings
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*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. 1Science Affairs and Statistics Division, Health Canada 10881 rue Durham, Montréal, Québec H2C 2G8; 2INRS–Institut Armand-Frappier, 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval, Québec H7V 1B7; 3Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University and Department of Pathology, Royal Victoria Hospital, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Québec H3A 2B4, Canada
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Mesothelioma in Quebec chrysotile miners and millers: epidemiology and aetiology.
In a cohort of some 11,000 men born 1891-1920 and employed in the Quebec chrysotile production industry, including a small asbestos products factory, of 9780 men who survived into 1936, 8009 are known to have died before 1993, 38 probably from mesothelioma--33 in miners and millers and five in factory workers. Among the 5041 miners and millers at Thetford Mines, there had been 4125 deaths from ...
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