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Ann. occup. Hyg., Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 127-128, 2002
© 2002 British Occupational Hygiene Society
Published by Oxford University Press

Letters to the Editor

The Quantitative Risks of Mesothelioma and Lung Cancer in Relation to Asbestos Exposure: The Wittenoom Data

ALAN ROGERS and GERSHOM MAJOR

Received 16 February 2001;

The Ontario Royal Commission in 1984, in its chapter entitled ‘Criteria for Evaluating Cohort Studies and the Limitations of Asbestos Epidemiology’, commented that ‘It is therefore no accident that one of the weakest parts of all asbestos epidemiology is the quality of the quantitative exposure data’ (Dupre et al., 1984).

Such comments are of particular relevance to the cumulative crocidolite exposure levels used by Hodgson and Darnton (2000) in their mesothelioma and lung cancer risk estimates for the cohort of Australian Blue Asbestos workers (commonly known as the Wittenoom cohort).

It is important to realize that while Wittenoom is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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