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FILE NAME: Dental Asbestos (DEN) DATE: 1986 DOC#: DEN005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Journal Article - British Journal of Industrial Medicine - A Survey of Cancer and Occupation in Young and Middle Aged Men - Cancers of the Respiratory Tract - First Page British Journal o f Industriai Medicine 1986;43:332-338 . tV iA A \ lr\ Code A survey o f cancer and occupation in young and middle aged men. I Cancers o f the respiratory tract D COGGON, B PANNETT, C OSMOND, AND E D ACHESON From the M RC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University o f Southampton. Southampton General Hospital, Southampton S 0 9 4XY, UK abstract In a search for dues to previously unrecognised industrial carcinogens the occupational and smoking histories of young and middle aged men with different types o f canrerw ere compared. The study population comprised men aged 18-54 and resident in the counties o f Cleveland, Hum berside, and Cheshire (induding the Wirral). From hospital and cancer registration iw ords 2942 members of the study population in whom cancers were diagnosed during the period 1975-80were jdAwrifiari retrospectively. The occupational and smoking histories o f these patients were sought by a postal questionnaire aHrirawari either to the patients themsdves or, if they had died, to their next ofldn. The overall response rate to the questionnaire was 52-1%. Additionally, touted occupational information was obtained for 89% of cases from their hospital notes. Analysis of these data suggests that no serious bias arose as a consequence of the incomplete response to the questionnaire. This paper 0n the results for cancers of the respiratory tract and mesothelioma. Meso thelioma was found to duster in laggers, electricians, and shipyard workers, and nasal carcinoma in woodworkers. Carcinomas o f the larynx and of the bronchus were examined by formal statistical *a.h twins rnmnared with a control zrouo made up of all other cancers combined. Accepted 9 Septem ber 1985 tend to have the greatest cumulative exposure). We here a survey in which we have com pared the occupational histories of young and middle 332