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Female laundry and dry cleaning workers in Wisconsin: a mortality analysis.

Author(s) -

R M Katz,

D. Jowett

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.71.3.305

Subject(s) - laundry , death certificate , medicine , dry cleaning , bladder cancer , demography , environmental health , gerontology , cancer , cause of death , geography , waste management , disease , archaeology , sociology , engineering

The mortality patterns of 671 female laundry and dry cleaning workers for the period 1963--1977 were analyzed, using Wisconsin death certificate data. Results fail to show an overall increase in malignant neoplasms, but elevated risk was found for cancers of the kidney and genitals (unspecified), along with a smaller excess of bladder and skin cancer and lymphosarcoma.

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