Occupational asbestos exposure and risk of pleural mesothelioma, lung cancer, and laryngeal cancer in the prospective Netherlands cohort study

NSM Offermans, R Vermeulen, A Burdorf… - … of occupational and …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To study the association between occupational asbestos exposure and pleural
mesothelioma, lung cancer, and laryngeal cancer, specifically addressing risk associated …

Enduring health effects of asbestos use in Belgian industries: a record-linked cohort study of cause-specific mortality (2001–2009)

L Van den Borre, P Deboosere - BMJ open, 2015 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To investigate cause-specific mortality among asbestos workers and potentially
exposed workers in Belgium and evaluate potential excess in mortality due to established …

Digestive cancers and occupational asbestos exposure: incidence study in a cohort of asbestos plant workers

M Boulanger, F Morlais, V Bouvier… - Occupational and …, 2015 - oem.bmj.com
Objective The aim of our study was to estimate the incidence of digestive cancers within a
cohort of asbestos-exposed workers. Methods Our study was based on a cohort of 2024 …

The impact of asbestos exposure in Swedish construction workers

B Järvholm, A Englund - American journal of industrial …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To study the occurrence of pleural mesothelioma as a measure of the impact on
health from asbestos exposure in the construction industry. Methods The occurrence of …

Trends in occupational asbestos exposure and asbestos consumption over recent decades in Korea

D Park, S Choi, K Ryu, J Park, N Paik - International journal of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
In Korea, national statistics for asbestos exposure levels covering various asbestos
industries and associated with specific years have never been published. The authors …

Malignant mesothelioma incidence by nation-wide cancer registry: a population-based study

K Tomasson, G Gudmundsson, H Briem… - Journal of Occupational …, 2016 - Springer
Background Malignant mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure has a long latency
period. A ban on asbestos use may not be apparent in decreased incidence in the …

Asbestosis: a marker for the increased risk of lung cancer among workers exposed to asbestos

W Weiss - Chest, 1999 - Elsevier
This review examines the hypothesis that excess lung cancer risk in worker cohorts exposed
to asbestos occurs only among those with asbestosis. The adequately designed studies in …

Incidence of digestive cancers and occupational exposure to asbestos

S de La Provôté, N Desoubeaux, C Paris… - European journal of …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
While the role of exposure to asbestos in the development of several cancers such as
mesotheliomas and bronchopulmonary cancers is now well established, the possible …

Mortality from all cancers of asbestos factory workers in east London 1933–80

G Berry, ML Newhouse, JC Wagner - … and environmental medicine, 2000 - oem.bmj.com
OBJECTIVE To give the observed and expected deaths due to cancer at all separate sites in
asbestos workers in east London, and to analyse these for overall effect and exposure …

Asbestos, asbestos-related diseases, and compensation claims in The Netherlands

P Swuste, A Burdorf, B Ruers - International journal of occupational …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In The Netherlands the number of asbestos-related diseases is increasing. An age-
cohort model predicts a steep rise in pleural mesothelioma deaths up to 490 cases per year …