Respiratory cancer in relation to occupational exposures among retired asbestos workers1

AUTOR(ES)

Enterline, Philip

RESUMO

Enterline, P., de Coufle, P., and Henderson, V. (1973).British Journal of Industrial Medicine,30, 162-166. Respiratory cancer in relation to occupational exposures among retired asbestos worker. A cohort of 1 348 men who completed their working lifetime in the asbestos industry and retired 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 years and all had exposures 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 United States 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 the expected. The respiratory disease excess was entirely due to asbestosis.

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