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Endotoxin Exposure and Lung Cancer in Female Textile Workers
Lung cancer rates are reduced among workers in the cotton textile industry. To investigate whether this reduction is associated with exposure to bacterial endotoxin contamination, Astrakianakis et al. (p. 357) carried out a nested casecohort study within a group of 267,400 female textile workers in Shanghai, China. Workers with a cumulative exposure to bacterial endotoxin contamination had a reduced risk of lung cancer, compared with workers who were not exposed. After 20 years of endotoxin exposure, lung cancer incidence was reduced by approximately 7.6 cases per 100,000 women in
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