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## Background: Since the early 1990s various european electricity companies have set up a research program, named eurelex, devoted to the development of a comprehensive and validated title-occupation--job-exposure matrix (i.e., an instrument to assess exposures from occupations and jobs), in order to estimate and quantify past exposure to a number of potentially carcinogenic agents plus a few selected other toxic substances. the eurelex program was first applied in italy to a cohort of geothermal workers in larderello, tuscany. ## Methods: The cohort mortality study comprised 4,237 men who had worked at the geothermal power plant between 1950 and 1990. vital status and death certificates were obtained from registration offices in the municipality of birth or death. particular attention was paid to neoplastic effects of exposure to asbestos, largely used in the past for pipeline insulating purposes. the matrix allowed the workers to be subdivided into several categories according to estimated absestos exposure. smoking information was not available. ## Results: No excess mortality was found for all causes and total cancer mortality. a small excess of pleural cancer (2 obs. vs. 1.4 e

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Author

Enrico Pira; Marco Turbiglio; Marco Maroni; Paolo Carrer; Carlo La Vecchia; Eva Negri; Roberto Iachetta

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0271-3586)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)