Table 1 shows dose-response analyses
between levels of PAHs and the risk of lung
cancer and bladder cancer. The 10 selected
epidemiological studies are described below.
In 51 subjects with lung cancer and 153
controls from a cohort of 3,425 subjects
who had worked in iron foundries for at
least 1 year between 1918 and 1972, Tola
et al. (4) reclassified jobs according to the
BaP levels measured in 1976. Neither lung
cancer OR, not adjusted for smoking (recalculated),
nor the test for OR trend (recalculated)
were significant; 15/51 cases (29.4%)
with miscellaneous exposure were excluded