Mortality among Workers Exposed to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in an Electrical Capacitor Manufacturing Plant in Indiana: An Update

An Indiana capacitor-manufacturing cohort (n = 3,569) was exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from 1957 to 1977. The original study of mortality through 1984 found excess melanoma and brain cancer; other studies of PCB-exposed individuals have found excess non-Hodgkin lymphoma and rectal, li...

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Main Authors: Ruder, Avima M., Hein, Misty J., Nilsen, Nancy, Waters, Martha A., Laber, Patricia, Davis-King, Karen, Prince, Mary M., Whelan, Elizabeth
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1332650/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393652
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8253
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