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Proportional mortality among vinyl chloride workers

Author(s) -

Richard R. Monson,

John Peters,

Maurice N. Johnson

Publication year - 1975

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.751175

Subject(s) - vinyl chloride , excess mortality , biliary tract cancer , lung cancer , liver cancer , medicine , cancer , toxicology , mortality rate , demography , surgery , chemistry , biology , organic chemistry , copolymer , polymer , gemcitabine , sociology

In a proportional mortality analysis of 161 deceased workers in two plants processing or producing vinyl chloride, a 50% excess of deaths due to all cancer was seen. Specific sites of cancer with the greatest excess included liver and biliary tract, lung and brain. The excess in fatal cancer was seen mainly in men who died before age 60. Also, there was a trend in time in the ratio of observed to expected deaths: since 1970 over twice as many cancer deaths as expected have occurred.

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