Mortality and Cancer Experience of Quebec Aluminum Reduction Plant Workers. Part 3: Monitoring the Mortality of Workers First Employed After January 1, 1950.

This article presents a study reharding the mortality and cancer experience of Quebec aluminum reduction plant workers after January 1, 1950. The results of the study shows that respiratory cancer mortality and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were statistically in excess. In the combined cohorts, standardized mortality ratios exceeded 110 for cancers of rectum, esophagus, larynx, pancreas, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, lung, cerebrovascular disease, and asthma. There was a significant downward trend in mortality from all causes, bladder and lung cancer.