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High Content Screening Analysis to Evaluate the Toxicological Effects of Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents (HPHC)
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[Carcinogenic hazard in the manufacture of technical-grade carbon]
Voprosy Onkologii
|January 1, 1980
Abstract:
As a result of retrospective studies on cancer mortality among workers engaged in the carbon black industry, it was found that the mortality rate from cancer of the lung, stomach and gastrointestinal tract within this cohort of workers is higher compared with the population of the surrounding district and distant to it.
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