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Occurrence of urinary tract tumors in miners highly exposed to dinitrotoluene.
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine - 1 Mar 1999
Brüning T, Chronz C, Thier R, Havelka J, Ko Y, Bolt H M
Abstract excerpt
Between 1984 and 1997, six cases of urothelial cancer and 14 cases of renal cell cancer occurred in a group of 500 underground mining workers in the copper-mining industry of the former German Democratic Republic, with high exposures to explosives containing technical dinitrotoluene. Exposure durations ranged from 7 to 37 years, and latency periods ranged from 21 to 46 years. The incidences of both urothelial and...
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