[Confounding and confusion: recognition of causative relation and identification of victims of occupational carcinogens].
The recognition of occupational cancers is often hampered by the confusion between the individual determinants of the disease and the effect at the group exposure. Here we propose an approach based on the evaluation of the attributable risk at group level aimed to quantify the respective role of multiple causes, and the individual rebounds of it.
Crosignani
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Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano, U.O. Registro Tumori, Divisione di Epidemiologia. occam@istitutotumori.mi.it
Amendola
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Audisio
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Scaburri
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