Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Silica exposure, silicosis, and lung cancer : a mortality study of South African gold miners

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Silica exposure, silicosis, and lung cancer : a mortality study of South African gold miners / Eva Hnizdo, G.K. Sluis-Cremer

Sumario: The objet of the present paper is to present results from a mortality study of 2209 white South African gold miners who started their mining exposure in 1936-43, and were selected for a study of respiratory disorders during 1968-71, when they were aged 45-54. In this study is examined: the dose response relation betwen lung cancer and exposure to silica dust measured in repirable dust particle-years; the combined effect of tobacco smoking and respirable dust particle-years; the association betwen lung cancer and silicosis identified at necropsy; possible reasons for different results obtained by the case-control studies and folow up studies

En: British journal of industrial medicine. - London and Margate. - nº 1, January 1991 ; p. 53-60

1. Medicina laboral . 2. Epidemiología . 3. Enfermedades profesionales . 4. Enfermedades pulmonares . 5. Polvo de sílice . 6. Silicosis . 7. Cáncer . 8. Mortalidad . 9. Oro . 10. Sudáfrica . 11. Minería . I. Sluis-Cremer, G.K. . II. Título. III. Título: British journal of industrial medicine.