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Respiratory tract mortality in cement workers: a proportionate mortality study Full Text
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 06/29/2012
Rachiotis G et al. – Cement production, and maintenance workers presented increased lung and respiratory cancer proportionate mortality, and this finding probably cannot be explained by the confounding effect of smoking alone. Further research including use of prospective cohort studies is needed in order to establish a causal association between occupational exposure to cement and risk of lung cancer.