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TABLE 5.8{o) Record-linkage Studies among Workers in the Printing industry (IARC, 1996)

Reference, Period of Cancer site/ No.
country Study subjects foliow-up Occupation/exposure cause of death obs. RR 95% CJ Comments

Malkerand 24 652 men and 1961-73 Printing workers (M) Lung 190 1.5 [1.3-1.8] Morbidity
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Gemne, ' 6450 women Blue-collar workers (M) in Lung 149 1.6 [1.4-1.9]
Sweden registered at 1960 printing enterprises
census as printing (newspaper, journal/book
workers printing, others)
Birth cohort around 1990 (M) Lung 45 1.9 1.4-2.5
Urinary bladder 76 1.3 NG P > 0.01
Kidney 48 1.1 NG P > 0.01
Skin melanoma 27 1.2 NG P > 0.01
Printing workers (F) Lung 9 1.3 NG P > 0.01
Urinary bladder 5 0.8 NG P > 0.01
Kidney 7 1.1 NG P > 0.01
Skin melanoma 8 1.2 NG P > 0.01
Cervix/uterus 162 1.3 [1.1-1.5]
McLaughlin Male printing 1961-79 Printing industry Skin melanoma 91 1.4 [1.1-1.7] Morbidity
et al. (1988) workers at 1960 Newspaper printing industry 39 1.9 [1.1-1.7]
Sweden census; Newspaper publishing industry 7 3.1 [1.2-6.4]
91 melanomas Typographers in newspaper 19 2.0 [1.2-3.1]
printing industry
Machine repairers in newspaper 2 14.5 [1.6-52.3]
printing industry
Journalists/editors in newspaper 16 2.4 [1.4-3.9]
printing industry
Business/executives in newspaper 5 9.1 [2.9-21.2]
printing industry

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