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Re: "Mortality from Solid Cancers among Workers in Formaldehyde Industries"
1 International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD 20850
2 Department of Medicine and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232
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Hauptmann et al. (1
) concluded that their analyses of a cohort of industrial workers from 10 US formaldehyde-producing or -using facilities supported a possible causal association between formaldehyde exposure and nasopharyngeal cancer risk. They acknowledged that most nasopharyngeal cancers were observed in one of the 10 facilities included in their study (i.e., plant 1) and reported the
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