Dose-response relation between acrylamide and pancreatic cancer
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–7400, USA
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Dr M R Schulz mrs6388{at}emailunc.edu
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–7400, USA
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Dr M R Schulz mrs6388{at}emailunc.edu
In their 1999 study of workers exposed to acrylamide, Marshet al conducted an SMR analysis, and fitted several relative risk regression models to the data.1 In each analysis, they found risk of pancreatic cancer increased by about twofold for workers in the highest cumulative exposure group, but risk of pancreatic cancer did not increase monotonically with cumulative exposure in any of their analyses. Duration of …
