The Schneeberg lung cancer cases
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47 cases of ''Schneeberg lung cancer'' are reported which received financial compensation in West Germany after 1945 after being officially acknowledged as occupational disease. With two exceptions, all patients had been occupied in the Saxonian and Bohemian uranium mines (or their extensions after World War II). The geotechnical fundamentals, industrial hygiene measures taken, the radiobiological situation and its effects are presented. Most patients had small-cell carcinomas or epitheliomas. Accompanying silicosis, usually in a mild form, was found in 35 cases. The mean exposure time was 10.3 years (in 11 cases, less than five years), the mean latency time 22 years (minimum: 8 years). The mean age at the time of death was 58.2 years, i.e. 10 years less than in a normal control group. (orig.)
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Es wird ueber 47 Faelle von Schneeberger Lungenkrebs berichtet, die in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach 1945 als Berufskrankheit entschaedigt wurden oder die anerkennungsreif sind. Mit zwei Ausnahmen entstammen alle dem saechsisch-boehmischen Uranerzbergbau (und seiner Ausweitung nach dem 2.Weltkrieg). Es werden die geotechnischen Grundlagen, die arbeitshygienische Situation sowie die strahlenbiologischen Verhaeltnisse und Wirkungen dargestellt. Es handelt sich vorzugsweise um kleinzellige und Plattenepithelkarzinome. 35 Faelle haben eine begleitende, meist leichte Silikose. Die mittlere Expositionszeit betraegt 10,3 Jahre, in 11 Faellen weniger als 5 Jahre; die mittlere Latenzzeit 22 Jahre, minimal 8 Jahre. Das mittlere Sterbealter liegt mit 58,2 Jahren um 10 Jahre unter der vergleichbaren Gruppe aus der Normalbevoelkerung. (orig.)
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Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- A study of 47 cases treated in the period after World War 2
- Original title (German)
- Der Schneeberger Lungenkrebs
- Original subtitle (German)
- Studie ueber 47 Faelle aus der Zeit nach dem 2. Weltkrieg.
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 76 p.
- Report number
- INIS-mf--8838
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 15038640
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Thesis
- Descriptors DEI
- CARCINOMAS; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE; LATENCY PERIOD; LIFE SPAN; LUNGS; MINERS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADIATION HAZARDS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DISEASES; URANIUM MINES
- Descriptors DEC
- BODY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EUROPE; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MEDICINE; MINES; NEOPLASMS; ORGANS; PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM