Open AccessMortality and cancer incidence among Swedish dock workers--a retrospective cohort study.
Author(s) -
Lars Gustafsson,
Stig Wall,
LarsGunnar Larsson,
B Skog
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.2178
Subject(s) - cause of death , medicine , cancer , register (sociolinguistics) , lung cancer , demography , incidence (geometry) , cancer incidence , retrospective cohort study , truck , cohort , environmental health , surgery , oncology , disease , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , sociology , optics , aerospace engineering
The study originates from the arousal of suspicions that, in connection with loading and unloading work involving the use of trucks, exposure to diesel exhaust fumes may be carcinogenic. This report describes a register study in which a broad mapping of the cause-of-death pattern and cancer morbidity has been carried out through the matching of locally compiled personal data with those from a central register, the Cause-of-Death Register, and the Cancer Register. The results obtained thus far show a low total mortality--irrespective of cause of death--but a tendency towards an excess risk for cancer morbidity, mainly due to lung cancer.