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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 8 : 785
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "LUNG CANCER AMONG INDUSTRIAL SAND WORKERS EXPOSED TO CRYSTALLINE SILICA"

Bengt Sjögren

Toxicology and Risk Assessment, Swedish National Institute for Working Life, SE-112 79 Stockholm, Sweden

Steenland and Sanderson presented a well-designed cohort study comprising 4,626 industrial sand workers (1Go). The lung cancer standardized mortality ratio was 1.60, and limited data suggested that smoking might account for 10–20 percent of the lung cancer excess as the risk ratio for lung cancer is about 10 (smokers vs. nonsmokers). Nested case-control analyses after exclusion of short-term workers, who had a high overall mortality, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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