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SUBMITTER: Fernandes GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6679146 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fernandes Gisele Aparecida GA Algranti Eduardo E Conceição Gleice Margarete de Souza GMS Wünsch Filho Victor V Toporcov Tatiana Natasha TN
International journal of environmental research and public health 20190717 14
There are scarce epidemiological studies on lung cancer mortality in areas exposed to asbestos in developing countries. We compared the rates and trends in mortality from lung cancer between 1980 and 2016 in a municipality that made extensive use of asbestos, Osasco, with rates from a referent municipality with lower asbestos exposure and with the rates for the State of São Paulo. We retrieved death records for cases of lung cancer (ICD-9 C162) (ICD-10 C33 C34) from 1980 to 2016 in adults aged 6 ...[more]