US EPA

3084784 

Journal Article 

Respiratory cancer in relation to occupational exposures among retired asbestos workers 

Enterline, P; de Coufle, P; Henderson, V 

1973 

Yes 

British Journal of Industrial Medicine
ISSN: 0007-1072 

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP 

LONDON 

HEEP/74/04965 

30 

2 

162-166 

English 

4703087 

10.1136/oem.30.2.162 

WOS:A1973P391500009 

HEEP COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. A cohort of 1348 men who completed their working lifetime in the asbestos industry and retured with an industry pension during the period 1941-67 was observed through 1969 for deaths. The average length of employment in the asbestos industry for these men was 25 yr and all were exposed to asbestos dust. In some instances these exposures were very high and continued for many years. Mortality for this cohort of men after age 65 was 14.7% higher than for the entire population of USA white men living at the same ages and time periods. This excess was due almost entirely to cancer and respiratory disease. The cancer excess was chiefly due to respiratory cancer where mortality was 2.7 times than expected. The respiratory disease excess was entirely due to asbestosis. Separation of the effects of time from the effects of average dust level on respiratory cancer mortality showed that the contribution of each was about the same and that a time-weighted measure of asbestos dust appears to be an appropriate method for predicting respiratory cancer effects. 

Dust; Asbestos; 1332-21-4; Index Medicus; Asbestosis -- mortality; Time Factors; Statistics as Topic; Environmental Exposure; Retirement; Asbestos -- adverse effects; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms -- chemically induced; Occupational Diseases -- chemically induced; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms -- mortality