title: Respiratory-cancer clustering associated with localised industrial air pollution.
abstract: Between 1968 and 1974 there was a significantly large number of deaths from respiratory cancer among members of a Scottish community living near and downwind from a steel foundry. The air in that area was polluted by metallic particles from the foundry.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008669:Metallurgy; D008670:Metals / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012142:Respiratory Tract Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D012606:Scotland; D012621:Seasons; D013029:Space-Time Clustering; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D008670:Metals