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  • Title: [Should the lung cancer of iron-miners in Lorraine be considered an occupational disease? (author's transl)].
    Author: Anthoine D, Braun P, Cervoni P, Schwartz P, Lamy P.
    Journal: Rev Fr Mal Respir; 1979; 7(1):63-5. PubMed ID: 493683.
    Abstract:
    The occupational group composed of the iron-miners working at the bottom of the mines in Lorraine makes up a high risk population for lung cancer (The carcinogenic index is 5 to 12 times as high as that of the population of non-miners). The authors report a new series of 270 cases in support of this assertion. The cancers have few particular characteristics. Their genesis appears to be related with the action of many co-factors: tobacco, various gases and noxious dust, iron particles. Our findings are similar to those of the Swedish, British and Russian authors. The occupation of iron-miner at the bottom of the mine appears then to favorize the manifestation of lung cancer. So it would be fair to consider this tumor an occupational disease, as with asbestosis.
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