Cancer incidence among employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1969-1980.
The cancer incidence from 1969 through 1980 among active members of an occupational cohort (the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [LLNL] was compared with that of the same-age sector of the total population of the San Francisco-Oakland Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. Excesses were found for malignant melanoma of the skin and salivary gland tumors and a deficit for lung cancer in men. No excesses were noted for radiosensitive tissue groups. The overall incidence of cancer among LLNL employees for this time period is approximately that for the general population.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012306:Risk; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology