Author/year | Country | Employment | Gender/age | Study cohort | Reference cohort |
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Polednak et al., 1978 [66] | US | 1915–1929 | Female | 634 employees, who worked in the US radium dial-painting industry | US white female population |
Teta et al., 1988 [67] | US | 1946–1981 | Male | 846 employees of a research, engineering, and metal fabrication facility | US white male population and the white male population of Niagara and Erie counties in New York state |
Wiggs et al., 1994 [68] | US | 1943–1977 | Male | 15,727 white employees | US white male population |
Rix et al., 1998 [69] | Denmark | 1943–1993 | Female/male | 14,362 Danish paper mill workers employed at any time between 1943 and 1990 | National cancer rate was used to calculate expected cancer cases |
Rix, Villadsen, and Lynge, 1997 [70] | Denmark | 1955–1993 | Female/male | 2238 workers employed in 1955–1990 at two Danish sulfite mills | National cancer rate was used to calculate expected cancer cases |
Koshurnikova et al., 2000 [71] | US/Russia | 1948–1958 | Female/male | 11,000 employees of ‘‘Mayak’’ nuclear reactor and plant, plutonium production facility | General US and Russian populations |