Cancer- and noncancer-specific cumulative incidence of death after exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins: A competing risk analysis among Yusho patients

•We estimated the cumulative cancer risk in Yusho patients.•Males have a significantly higher risk of cumulative cancer than females.•The difference in noncancer risk was similar between males and females. In competing risks settings, the cause-specific cumulative incidence function is of great inte...

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Published in:	Environment International Vol. 147; p. 106320
Main Authors:	Onozuka, Daisuke, Nakamura, Yuko, Tsuji, Gaku, Furue, Masutaka
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2021 Elsevier BV Elsevier
Subjects:	Cancer Competing risk confidence interval Cumulative incidence function cumulative risk death Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated Dioxins Dioxins - toxicity disease control environment Environmental sciences Female females Food Contamination GE1-350 hazard ratio Humans Incidence Japan Male males Neoplasms Polychlorinated biphenyls Polychlorinated Biphenyls - toxicity prognosis regression analysis risk analysis Risk Assessment survival rate Yusho Japan Polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs Yusho Cumulative incidence function Competing risk Cancer
ISSN:	0160-4120, 1873-6750, 1873-6750
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