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ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2017

Cancer Incidence Among Hardmetal Production Workers: The Swedish Cohort.

Magnus Svartengren, Ing-Liss Bryngelsson, Gary Marsh, Jeanine Buchanich, Sarah Zimmerman, Kathleen Kennedy, Nurtan Esmen, Håkan Westberg

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Article in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Magnus SvartengrenDepartment of Medical Science, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (Dr Svartengren); Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Science, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden (Ms Bryngelsson, Dr Westberg); Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Drs Marsh, Buchanich, Ms Zimmerman); and Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Ms Kennedy, Dr Esmen).
Ing-Liss Bryngelsson
Gary Marsh
Jeanine Buchanich
Sarah Zimmerman
Kathleen Kennedy
Nurtan Esmen
Håkan Westberg
Zimmerman Associates (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

: The cancer incidence was determined for 3713 workers from three plants from 1958 to 2011. The exposure measures were ever/never exposed, duration, cumulative, and mean cobalt concentrations.The incidence of all malignant neoplasms was increased at one plant, but standardized incidence ratio (SIR) was 0.96 for all workers. Lung cancer incidence was increased for all workers, SIR 1.38 (1.01 to 1.85). The lung cancer incidence was associated with shorter employment time and showed no exposure-response. There was decreased incidence for skin cancer. Increased lip cancer incidence found at one of the production plants might be related to diagnostic intensity.Lung cancer incidence showed no correlation to cobalt exposure based on internal comparison. The increased SIR for all workers might be associated with other factors.

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AlloysCobaltFemaleHumansIncidenceMaleNeoplasmsOccupational DiseasesOccupational ExposureProportional Hazards ModelsRegistriesSwedenTungstenAlloysCobalthard metalTungsten

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PMID29215488
PMCPMC5732645
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