Cancer mortality among shoe and leather workers in Massachusetts.
A proportional mortality analysis of death certificates of 2,798 shoe and leather workers demonstrated a statistically significant excess of bladder cancer among female shoe workers (PMR = 2.51, 95% confidence interval 1.23 to 5.12). A case-referent analysis of 289 leather workers, on whom detailed occupational information was available, demonstrated an association of lung cancer with work in leather-tanning jobs (odds ratio = 4.2, 95% confidence interval 1.09 to 16.2).
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D012306:Risk; D012737:Sex Factors; D012775:Shoes; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D013633:Tanning; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality