Cancer Incidence Among Hardmetal Production Workers: The Swedish Cohort

Magnus Svartengren1, Ing-Liss Bryngelsson, Gary Marsh

  • 1Department of Medical Science, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (Dr Svartengren); Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Science, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden (Ms Bryngelsson, Dr Westberg); Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Drs Marsh, Buchanich, Ms Zimmerman); and Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Ms Kennedy, Dr Esmen).

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