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Meta-analysis of occupational exposures in the rubber manufacturing industry and risk of cancer
Author(s) -
Mathieu Boniol,
Alice Koechlin,
Peter Boyle
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyx146
Subject(s) - medicine , bladder cancer , cancer , lung cancer , confidence interval , stomach cancer , cohort study , relative risk , case control study , incidence (geometry) , oncology , physics , optics
Occupational exposures in the rubber manufacturing industry showed an increased risk of cancer and have been classified as a group 1 carcinogen, largely from studies on workers employed before 1950s. Cancer sites considered as causally associated are bladder, lung and stomach, and leukaemia. Recent studies did not report an increased risk of cancer.

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