Lung Cancer in a Fluorspar Mining Community. II. Prevalence of Respiratory Symptoms and Disability

A survey of respiratory symptoms, lung function tests, and chest radiography was carried out among the fluorspar miners of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, in whom the incidence of carcinoma of the lung (De Villiers and Windish, 1964) had previously been shown to be 25 times greater than for the rest of...

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Main Authors: Parsons, W. D., Villiers, A. J. de, Bartlett, L. S., Becklake, Margaret R.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1964
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Newfoundland
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1038331
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14142516
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Summary:A survey of respiratory symptoms, lung function tests, and chest radiography was carried out among the fluorspar miners of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, in whom the incidence of carcinoma of the lung (De Villiers and Windish, 1964) had previously been shown to be 25 times greater than for the rest of the province.

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