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Historical exposures to asbestos fibres were estimated from work histories and 3578 industrial hygiene measurements taken in 1935\u20131986. Mortality of the cohort was compared with that of the national population via standardised mortality ratios (SMRs). Exposure\u2013response relationships for lung cancer were examined within the cohort using Poisson regression to compute adjusted mortality rate ratios.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Follow-up of 5770 workers included in the cohort resulted in 181\u2009640 person-years of observation, with 2583 deaths from all causes and 277 from lung cancer. Mortality from all causes, all cancers and lung cancer was significant higher than expected, with SMRs of 1.47 for all causes, 1.41 for all cancer and 1.96 (95% CI 1.73 to 2.20) for lung cancer. SMRs for pleural cancer, mesothelioma and pneumoconiosis were also elevated. The risk of lung cancer and asbestosis increased with cumulative fibre exposure (RR 1.102 per 100 fibre-year\/ml, 95% CI 1.044 to 1.164, and RR 1.249 per 100 fibre-year\/ml, 95% CI 1.186 to 1.316, respectively, for total career exposure).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study provides further evidence that exposure to chrysotile asbestos in textile manufacturing is associated with increased risk of lung cancer, asbestosis cancer of the pleura and mesothelioma.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/oem.2008.044362","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,13]],"date-time":"2009-03-13T00:24:36Z","timestamp":1236903876000},"page":"535-542","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":118,"title":["Lung cancer mortality and fibre exposures among North Carolina asbestos textile workers"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"66","author":[{"given":"D","family":"Loomis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J M","family":"Dement","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S H","family":"Wolf","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"D B","family":"Richardson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,3,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024052300070407000_66.8.535.1","unstructured":"International Agency for Research on Cancer. 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