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CONSTRUCTION-INDUSTRY
ASBESTOS-EXPOSURE
RESPIRATORY-SYSTEM-DISORDERS
CANCER, OCCUPATIONAL
DIFFERENCES IN OCCUPATIONAL MORTALITY FROM PLEURAL CANCER, PERITONEAL CANCER, AND ASBESTOSIS
The risk of asbestos related disease in occupations in the construction and engineering industries was evaluated. The category of workers which included laggers had the highest mortality from peritoneal cancer with a proportional mortality ratio (PMR) of 990 (64 deaths), but a PMR of only 160 (77 deaths) for pleural cancer. Several occupations with much higher mortality from pleural tumors had no excess of peritoneal cancer. The authors suggest that the exposure response relations for diseases related to asbestos are not all linear, and that the risk of pleural mesothelioma may be underestimated by simple extrapolation from observations in cohorts with heavy exposure.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 52(11):775-777, 1995. (9 references)
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