Journal Top Ten -- COLUMNS-Asbestos --June 2006

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TITLE: "Occupational Exposure and Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer Risk in Central and Eastern Europe"

AUTHORS: Shangina O, Brennan P, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Mates D, Fabianova E, Fletcher T, T'mannetje A, Boffetta P, Zaridze D.

photo-3JOURNAL: American Journal of Epidemiology. 2006 Jun 26; [Epub ahead of print]

SUMMARY: A multicenter case-control study was conducted during 1999-2002 in four European countries (Poland, Romania, Russia, and Slovakia) to evaluate the role of occupational exposures in risk of laryngeal/hypopharyngeal cancer. Male cancer cases (34 hypopharyngeal, 316 laryngeal) with full data on occupational history and nonoccupational factors were compared with 728 hospital …