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Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 41. pp. 145-151. 1981 R&S 133701 Mortality and Cancer Rates among Workers in the Swedish PVC Processing Industry by Gustavo Molina*, Bo Holmberg*, Stig Elofsson*, Lars Holmlund,* Rein Moosing,* and Peter Westerholm** Personnel lists from four PVC-processing industries were collected on production of employees with at least three months of employment at the beginning of 1945 and the last day of employment December 31, 1974.

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