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Sixty years on: the price of assembling military gas masks in 1940
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- Published on: 27 April 2016
- Published on: 27 April 2016Modelling mesothelioma risk for workers assembling military gas masksShow More
McDonald et al [1] present an updated analysis of a cohort of mostly women who made gas masks incorporating crocidolite asbestos between 1940 and 1944. They found a high risk of death from pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, confirming the carcinogenicity of crocidolite, but during the last 8 years of follow-up there were no further deaths from mesothelioma (their Figure 1 and Table 3).
They noted that th...
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