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FILE NAME Power Generation POW DATE 1986 DOC POW030 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Power Plant Worker Cancer Mortality + en et estry ence erice ral 1.18 1.32 1.93 References 1. 1. McDowall M. Balarajan R. Testicular cancer and em- ployment in agriculture Lancet 1 1984 510-511 2. Mills PK Newell GR Johnson DE Testicular cancer associated with employment in agriculture and oil and natural gas extraction Lancet 1 1984 207 210 3. National Board of Health and Welfare The Cancer 3. Registry Cancer incidence in Sweden 1982. Stockholm 1985 4. Sewell CM Castle SP Hull HF Testicular cancer and employment in agriculture and oil and natural gas extraction Lancet 1 1986 553 ScandJ Work Environ Health 12 1986 631 632 Additional follow of cancer mortality among workers in a thermoelectric power plant 5. Wiklund K Holm E Trends in cancer risks among Swedish agricultural workers J Natl Cancer Inst 77 1986 657-664 Kerstin Wiklund DrMedSc Jan Dich MSc Lars Holm MD 1 Department of Cancer Epidemiology Radiumhemmet Karolinska University Hospital 104 01 Stockholm Sweden 1986 no morso morso EAR cular 1935 was ative erval elefor end tors over ated The cohort of workers from the thermoelectric power during the cutting of such material the use of high- plant of Turbigo in Milan was the subject of an earlier speed tools is prohibited to avoid its spread and pul- investigation published in the Scandinavian Journal verization and polymers are spread on cutting surfaces of Work Environment & Health 10 1984 259 261 when work is stopped to avoid its undesired spread The follohw as now been extended to 31 Decem- In addition asbestos is being substituted with ceramic ber 1985 ie for another year period fibers in the plant and with concrete in the reservoir nonneoplasticcauses occurred for aiotal ease An additional six deaths due to neoplasms and five - safety walls Fume leakage from the boilers involving due to for / exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsis being cue of cancers out of 37 deaths ; monitored and if it exceeds a predefined value ac- = - Asthemortality experienceand expectancies of the-- cess to the area isforbidden and no.operations can be repaired subjects with less than 10 years of exposure do not performed inin the area Otherwise the boileris to be . substantially differ from those of the cohortin the _. downand contact with petroleum earlierinvestigation thepersonyears at risk increased 7 naphtha the main source of fuel for the plant is being - from 2 522 2 801 and nodeath occurred only sub- prevented through the education of the workers and : jects with 10 or more years of exposure have been in- the use of personal protective devices Transformers ; cluded this letter ; . containing polychlorinated biphenyls andin the low results replaced haTveo aflascoiliitnactelucdoemdpatrhaebexpiectanecies lxipetcytbaenctiweesenofthtehe previowues and medium power range have been | and study using incidence rates 1 based on the data the Table 1. Sitespecific mortality for subjects the cohort with - for 1987-1981 from Lombardy Cancer Register o are shown table L 10 or moreyears of exposure - O observed = expected a mortality They standardized The estimate of the ratio for . Up 31 Up | , , all neoplasms slightly changed with the new rates from 2.41 sided 95 % Poisson distribution Cause of death December 1980 December 1985 confidence limits 95 % CL 1.39 3.9t1o 2.15 95 % . O- E- 0 E CL 1.40 3.1T9he excess remained significant and could not be confined to a target organ or apparatus All neoplasms 140 Stomach 151 - 209 12 2 4.97 - 0.58 18 3 8.37 1.01 After 1978 when the first studywas planned and the technological process was considered inin terms of carcinogenic risk several measures were taken to exposure prevent to such carcinogens as asbestos poly- cyclicaromatichydrocarbonschromium nickel be- rylliurm ylliumpolychlorinated biphenyls and hydrazine For ned. exampleexample areas with asbestosexposuwrweeerere defined . Larynx 161 Lung 162 Colon 153 Pancreas 157 Breast 174 Prostate 185 Bladder 188 Brain 191 Myeloma 203 Unspecified 199 1 0.19 2 1.71 1 0.25 - 0.16 1 0.00 1 0.11 1 0.15 1 0.11 1 0.03 1 _ 1 0.32 5 2.83 1 0.44 1 0.28 1 0.01 1 0.23 2 0.27 1 0.18 1 0.06 1 -- identified and enclosed and only trained per- ~~ sonnelwithdisposable personal protective equipare now admittedin theseareaspowered vacuum cleaners with automatic storage of removed material are used to prevent the spread of asbestos All nonneoplastic causes 10 10.92 17.67 * Code of the International Classification of Diseases ninth revision in parentheses b Rates for the Varese Province 1976-1977 from the National Institute of Health 631 Mobos on. DE2 PO 5- DEPONENT REPORTER powered transformers have been assigned to an References semtr external firm with expertise in the treatment and de- contamination of polychlorinated biphenyls Exposure 1. Berrino F Crosignani P Gatta G Macaluso M Pisani to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons chromium - P Vigano C. Registro tumori Lombardia Incidenza e mortalita in 52 nickel and beryllium has been reduced by the damping of boiler ashes and the use of vacuum provincia di Varese negli anni 1978 19811978 1981 Assessorato .1986 alla Sanita Regione Lombardia Milano Notizie sanita 10 . : an cleaning and filter masks during their handling And finally the - 2. Cammarano G Crosignani P Berrino F Berra G. Cancer mortality among workers in loading of hydrazine has been automated a thermoelectric power plant Scand J Work Environ Health Because of the time lag between diagnosis and death 10 1984 259 261 any possible effect of these preventive measures will not be observable in the data presented At this time we would also like to inform readers Giuseppe Cammarano MD Paolo Crosignani DSc Franco Berrino MD Giorgio Berra MD that due to computing error the nonneoplastic cause expectancy presented in table 1 of the previous paper 2 should read 5.05 for subjects with less than 10 years of exposure and 10.92 for subjects with 10 or more years of exposure 1 Health Service National Board of Electricity Tur- bigo Power Plant Milan Italy 2 Epidemiology Unit National Cancer Institute 1 Venezian Rd 20133 Milan Italy 3 Local Health Unit No 71 Castano Primo Italy 632 Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health Helsinki Editor in chief Sven Hernberg Assistant editor in chief Markku Nurminen Helsinki Technical editor Georgianna Oja Tampere editors Irma ^ strandStockholm B^,rgeFallentin Copenhagen Editorial board Antero Aitio Helsinki Ib Andersen Copenhagen Kurt Andersson Ume^. 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