Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Mortality study of bleachers and dyers

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Mortality study of bleachers and dyers / Muriel L. Newhouse

Sumario: Anxiety still remains in the bleaching and dyeing industry about contact with carcinogenic substances. A trade union had preserved approximately 1500 death certificates relating to workers in the industry who were employed prior to 1936 and died between 1957 and 1968. A proportional mortality study has not revealed a significant excess of deaths for cancer in general or cancer of bladder in particular. The chief limitation of the investigation is that death certificates for earlier periods are not avaible; deaths for carcinoma of the bladder of occupational origin may occur earlier than non-occupational cancers

En: The Annals of occupational hygiene. - Oxford [etc.]. - nº 3, December 1978 ; p. 293-296

1. Higiene industrial . 2. Medicina laboral . 3. Sustancias tóxicas y peligrosas . 4. Contaminantes químicos . 5. Naftilamina . 6. Aminodifenilo . 7. Bencidina . 8. Nitrodifenilo . 9. Cáncer . 10. Mortalidad . I. Title. II. Título: The Annals of occupational hygiene.