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JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 147-153Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000111601.85534.12
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Altogether 14,650 workers employed at least for I year a the textile factory in Alytus, Lithuania, were included in the cohort and followed during the period from 19 78 to 1997. The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for men was 1.28. The incidence of esophagus cancer was significant higher (SIR 3.42). It increased only slightly for lung (SIR 1.35). In the women cohort, SIR was 1.05. However, there was a significant increase of the incidence of gallbladder cancer (SIR 3.19). Among textile-processing (spinning and weaving departments) women workers, we found elevated total cancer incidence (SIR 1.35), incidence of breast cancer (SIR 1.49), and cervical cancer (SIR 1.82). In this cohort increased SIR values were observed for more than 10 years since first exposure for all cancer (SIR 1.70) and cervical cancer (SIR 2.44).
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