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Journal Article 
Brain cancer linked to lead exposure 
2006 
Yes 
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
ISSN: 0027-8874
EISSN: 1460-2105 
98 
19 
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is summary of 215243 Brain cancer mortality and potential occupational exposure to lead: Findings from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study, 1979-1989
Occupational lead exposure is associated with brain cancer,
according to a new study.
Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., of the University of Rochester
in New York, and colleagues assessed the association between
lead exposure and brain cancer in 317,968 people who had been
surveyed about their occupations between 1979 and 1981. Their
jobs were classifi ed based on the amount of lead workers were
probably exposed to.
The authors found that people with jobs that exposed them
to lead had a 50% higher chance of developing brain cancer than
those who did not. They suggest that lead exposure is associated
with brain cancer.
The study was published in the September 1 issue of the
International Journal of Cancer . 
BRAIN; CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL hazards; CANCER -- Research; LEAD in the body; UNITED States