What were the cancer and death rates for asbestos miners in Quebec over the last hundred years and earl 1900’s?
Posted by admin on Sep 6, 2011
Oxford Journal
"A large survey of the Quebec asbestos miners has shown a slight excess of lung cancer in the most heavily exposed group…the crude death rates for lung cancer in the two mining towns are less than the death-rate for the Province of Quebec as a whole."
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/61.extract
"More recent studies of cancer mortality rates among workers in the asbestos mining and milling professions paint a less-disastrous picture. Owing to the fact that the potential hazard is lung cancer, and that most workers exposed to asbestos also have tended to be heavy smokers, it is not currently possible to statistically prove a relationship between asbestos exposure and cancer in a general (i.e., normal-smoking, non-asbestos profession) population."
http://www.mineralszone.com/minerals/asbestos.html
Asbestos-related diseases in Quebec, July 2004
Pulmonary cancer risk was 2% higher among the workers exposed to higher levels of asbestos.
Also, Check p 5
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:fAW6eFwQZvwJ:www.inspq.qc.ca/pdf/publications/293-EpidemiologyAsbestos.pdf+miners+in+Quebec+cancer+and+death+rates+for+asbestos&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjcdt-KFh2PakGc9hJE54Es1I2hBEg34hgyibuOqOKAruhlTc-ugQI6pqJI0cVfrfPhMPSfdA5eDblLVdQ09QRnHZvcI-nO3qE_X7LiW_rF73nuZNdo_3q9XKDOCnIBT8-0PXR-&sig=AHIEtbQEJbaPse3r0Iwk5zHdYBdcr5J0dg&pli=1
Oxford Journal
"A large survey of the Quebec asbestos miners has shown a slight excess of lung cancer in the most heavily exposed group…the crude death rates for lung cancer in the two mining towns are less than the death-rate for the Province of Quebec as a whole."
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/61.extract
"More recent studies of cancer mortality rates among workers in the asbestos mining and milling professions paint a less-disastrous picture. Owing to the fact that the potential hazard is lung cancer, and that most workers exposed to asbestos also have tended to be heavy smokers, it is not currently possible to statistically prove a relationship between asbestos exposure and cancer in a general (i.e., normal-smoking, non-asbestos profession) population."
http://www.mineralszone.com/minerals/asbestos.html
Asbestos-related diseases in Quebec, July 2004
Pulmonary cancer risk was 2% higher among the workers exposed to higher levels of asbestos.
Also, Check p 5
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:fAW6eFwQZvwJ:www.inspq.qc.ca/pdf/publications/293-EpidemiologyAsbestos.pdf+miners+in+Quebec+cancer+and+death+rates+for+asbestos&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjcdt-KFh2PakGc9hJE54Es1I2hBEg34hgyibuOqOKAruhlTc-ugQI6pqJI0cVfrfPhMPSfdA5eDblLVdQ09QRnHZvcI-nO3qE_X7LiW_rF73nuZNdo_3q9XKDOCnIBT8-0PXR-&sig=AHIEtbQEJbaPse3r0Iwk5zHdYBdcr5J0dg&pli=1
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