Mortality from cancer and other causes of death among synthetic rubber workers
Sathiakumar, Nalini ; Delzell, Elizabeth ; Hovinga, Mary ; Macaluso, Maurizio ; Julian, Jim A. ; Larson, Rodney ; Cole, Philip ; Muir, David C.F.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
1998
55
4
230-235
butadiene ; cancer ; case study ; mortality ; occupation disease relation ; rubber industry ; styrene
Occupational diseases
English
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This study evaluated the mortality experience of workers from the styrene-butadiene rubber industry. Concerns about a possible association of 1,3-butadiene and styrene with lymphohaematopoietic, gastrointestinal, and lung cancers prompted the investigation.
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