Brtish Journal of Industrial Medicne 1982;39:209-220 Cancer mortality in the British rubber industry

ABSTRACT Although it is over 30 years since an excess of bladder cancer was first identified in British rubber workers, the fear has persisted that this hazard could still be affecting men working in the industry today. Furthermore, suspicions have also arisen that other and hitherto unsus-pected excesses of cancer might be occurring. For these reasons 33 815 men, who first starte