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  • Title: [Assessing lead cancerogenic effects affecting printing house workers].
    Author: Il'icheva SA, Bul'bulian MA, Zaridze DG.
    Journal: Med Tr Prom Ekol; 2002; (8):15-9. PubMed ID: 12298412.
    Abstract:
    The aim of this study was to determine the level of risk of occupational cancer among compositors exposed to inorganic lead. A total of 216 men and 423 women were included in the cohort and followed up from 1 January 1979 to 31 December 1993. There were 2759 person-years among males and 6050 person-years among females. Among men, employed as compositors, there was a significantly elevated mortality from pancreas cancer. We have found two deaths from kidney cancer occurred exclusively among women-compositors with exposure 20 years or more yielding significantly increased SMR of 10.0.
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