Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Mortality from lung cancer in Ontario uranium miners

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Mortality from lung cancer in Ontario uranium miners / R.A. Kusiak... [et al.]

Sumario: Mortality from lung cancer was greater in Ontario uranium miners than in the general male population of Ontario. Part of the excess of lung cancer may be because the proportion of men who are smokers or have smoked is greater in uranium miners than in Ontario men. Smoking does not explain the whole excess. Mortality from lung cancer in Ontario uranium miners is clearly related to exposure to short lived radon progeny is greatest five to 14 years after exposure and less subsequently. It is greater in men under the age of 55 years and less in older men. Part of excess of lung cancer mortality in Ontario uranium miners is probably also due to exposure to arsenic that occurred earlier in gold mines

En: British journal of industrial medicine. - London and Margate. - nº 10, October 1993 ; p. 920-928

1. Medicina laboral . 2. Enfermedades profesionales . 3. Enfermedades pulmonares . 4. Cáncer . 5. Mortalidad . 6. Epidemiología . 7. Minería . 8. Uranio . 9. Ontario . I. Kusiak, R.A. . II. Título. III. Título: British journal of industrial medicine.