Cancer risk by social class and occupation : a survey of 109,000 cancer cases among Finns of working age /
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| Author / Creator: | Pukkala, Eero I. |
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| Imprint: | Basel ; New York : Karger, c1995. |
| Description: | ix, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contributions to epidemiology and biostatistics vol. 7 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2366851 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- II. Background
- III. Materials and Methods
- IV. Results. Cancers of the mouth and pharynx. Cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer of other digestive organs. Cancer of the respiratory organs. Cancer of the breast. Cancer of the female genital organs. Cancer of male genital organs. Cancer of the urinary organs. Cancer of the skin. Cancer of the eye and nervous system. Cancer of the endocrine glands. Cancer of the bone and connective tissue. Cancer at unspecified sites. Haematological cancers. Cancer at all sites
- V. Cancer profiles of selected occupations. Physicians. Teachers and labourers. Tobacco industry workers. Economically inactive persons
- VI. General discussion. Quality of the data sources. Comparison to other types of study. Limits of present study. Upper social classes as predictors of future cancer incidence. Preventability. VII. Summary and Conclusions
- VIII. References
- A. Average number of persons under follow-up, by occupation, social class and sex
- B. Numbers of cancer cases and standardised incidence ratios, by primary site, sex, social class and period
- C. Numbers of cancer cases, and crude and social class adjusted standardised incidence ratios for all occupational branches, and for specific occupations with at least five expected cases or with an SIR significantly different from 1.0, by primary site and sex.
