Incidence of cancer among the participants of the Finnish Asbestos Screening Campaign

Cancer risk has been estimated for asbestos production workers or other heavily exposed asbestos workers in numerous studies. The bulk of the asbestos epidemic results come, however, from past intermittent exposures during asbestos product use. This study concentrated on estimating the risk of cancer in such a population.Altogether 23285 men and 930 women invited to a nationwide screening campaign for benign asbestos-related diseases in...