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- Published on: 31 October 2006
- Published on: 7 July 2006
- Published on: 31 October 2006Finnish hardwoodShow More
Dear Editor,
The absence of a significant nasal and ethmoid sinus cancer risk in Finland may be due to the low concentrations of polyphenols in domestic tree species as compared to imported wood from from more southern regions (1). The determination of the polyphenol content could be a good chemical surrogate for the detection of the species with carcinogenic properties (2).
1 Mämmelä P, Phenolics in...
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None declared. - Published on: 7 July 2006Organic dust and lowered cancer rates: a dose-response relationshipShow More
Dear Editor,
The paper by Laakkonen et al., (1) reported a lower than expected rate of lung cancer in textile workers for men and women. The data in this study, as has been previously reported (2), suggest that a dose- response relationship exists for increasing cotton textile dust and lowered lung cancer rates. I would like to make several comments regarding this excellent report on dust exposure and respirator...
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