Abstracts From the Literature: Litigation Watch- Benzene-November 2007

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TITLE: "Incidence of Lymphohaematopoietic Cancer at a University Laboratory: A Cluster Investigation"

AUTHORS: Kristensen P, Hilt B, Svendsen K, Grimsrud TK.

JOURNAL: European Journal of Epidemiology. 2007 Nov 6; [Epub ahead of print]

SUMMARY: The authors of the study investigated a suspected cluster of lymphohaematopoietic cancer in departments of biology and chemistry at a Norwegian university. A historical cohort of students and employees (n = 7,189) were followed for cancer for 96,936 person-years in the Cancer Registry of Norway. Overall, 12 cases of lymphohaematopoietic cancer were identified, which was close to the expected number (standardised incidence …