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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Cancer Incidence Trends in the Oil Shale Industrial Region in Estonia.

Jane Idavain, Katrin Lang, Jelena Tomasova, Aavo Lang, Hans Orru

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  2. Perinatal Health Inequalities in the Industrial Region of Estonia: A Birth Registry-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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5 authors.

Jane IdavainInstitute of Family Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia.
Katrin LangInstitute of Family Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia.
Jelena TomasovaEstonian Health Board, Paldiski mnt 81, 10617 Tallinn, Estonia.
Aavo LangInstitute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia.
Hans OrruInstitute of Family Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila 19, 50411 Tartu, Estonia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large oil shale resources are found in Eastern Estonia, where the mineral resource is mined, excavated, and used for electricity generation and shale oil extraction. During industrial activities in the last 100 years, pollutants have been emitted in large amounts, some of which are toxic and carcinogenic. The current study aims to analyse time trends in cancer incidence in the oil shale industry-affected areas and compare them with overall cancer incidence rates and trends in Estonia. We analysed Estonian Cancer Registry data on selected cancer sites that have been previously indicated to have relationships with industrial activities like oil shale extraction. We included lung cancer, kidney cancer, urinary bladder cancer, leukaemia, breast cancer, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A statistically significantly higher lung cancer age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) was found during the study period (1992-2015) only in males in the oil shale areas as compared to males in Estonia overall: 133.6 and 95.5 per 100,000, respectively. However, there appeared to be a statistically significant (

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Oil and Gas IndustryEstoniaFemaleHumansIncidenceMaleMineralsNeoplasmsMineralsair pollutionlung canceroccupational healthoil shale

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PMID32481656
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