Rafael Carel, Paolo Boffetta, Timo Kauppinen, Kay Teschke, Aage Andersen, Paavo Jäppinen, Neil Pearce, Bo Andreassen Rix, Alain Bergeret, David Coggon, Bodil Persson, Irena Szadkowska-Stanczyk, Danuta Kielkowski, Paul Henneberger, Reiko Kishi, Luiz Augusto Facchini, Maria Sala, Didier Colin, Manolis Kogevinas
We studied the mortality from lung and pleural cancers in a cohort of 62,937 male workers employed for at least 1 year in the pulp and paper industry in 13 countries during 1945 to 1996. Mill departments were classified according to probability and level of exposure to asbestos on the basis of available dust measurements and mill-specific information on exposure circumstances. Thirty-six percent of workers were classified as ever exposed to asbestos. Standardized mortality ratios of lung cancer were 0.99 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0...
June 2002: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine