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Wood dust (IARC classification)

Wood dust generated by cutting, sanding, machining, or otherwise disturbing wood.

Airborne form

dust

The form describes what is suspended in air at the point of exposure. A material can produce more than one form, such as dust during handling and fume during heating.

Health effects

occupational respiratory diseasenasal and sinonasal cancer hazard classification

Carcinogenicity

Carcinogenic to humans — wood dust. Classification system: IARC, group 1.

A classification applies only to the agent and exposure described by the cited source; it is not a personal risk estimate.

Evidence

Parsed source dossier

These excerpts were generated from downloaded authoritative PDFs using the project ingestion pipeline. They are source metadata, not new medical interpretation.

mono100C.pdf

Design by Au-delà des mots 100 C arsenic, metals, fibres, and dusts Volume 100 of the IARC Monographs, A Review of Human Carcinogens, covers all agents previously classified by IARC as “carcinogenic to humans (Group 1)” and was developed by six separate Working Groups: Pharmaceuticals; Biological agents; Arsenic, Metals, Fibres, arsenic, metals, fibres, and Dusts; Radiation; Personal Habits and Indoor Combustions; Chemical Agents and Related Occupations. This Volume 100C covers Arsenic, Metals,

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mono-100C-TABLES/100C-10-Table2.10.pdf

Table 2.10. Case–control studies of wood dust and cancer of the upper respiratory and digestive tract other than the nose Reference, study Organ site Characteristics of cases Characteristics of Exposure Exposure categories Relative risk Adjustment for Comments location and (ICD controls assessment (95% CI)* potential period code) confounders Brown et al. Larynx 303 (220 living, 83 271 living, 113 Interview- Ever/never 8.1 (1.0–68.8) Smoking and Furniture making (1988) (161) dead) men, from 56 de

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mono-100C-TABLES/100C-10-Table2.11.pdf

Table 2.11. Case–control studies of wood dust and other respiratory cancers Reference, Organ site Characteristics of Characteristics of Exposure Exposure Relative risk Adjustment for Comments study location (ICD cases controls assessment categories (95% CI)* potential and period code) confounders Milne et al. Lung All 925 males All 6 420 males dying Occupation on Employment in Sex, age Occupation on (1983) (162) decedents; retrieval from other cancers, death certificate furniture/cabinet death c

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mono-100C-TABLES/100C-10-Table2.12.pdf

Table 2.12. Case–control studies of wood dust and cancer of the digestive tract and other cancers Reference, Organ site (ICD Characteristics of Characteristics of Exposure Exposure categories Relative risk Adjustment for Comments study location code) cases controls assessment (95% CI)* potential and period confounders González et Stomach (152) 354 (235 men, 119 354 hospital controls, Interview- Ever/never 1.8 (0.5–6.9) sex, age, and area of al. (1991) women) from 15 individually matched administ

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mono-100C-TABLES/100C-10-Table2.13.pdf

Table 2.13. Case–control studies of wood dust and hemopoietic malignancies Reference, study Organ site Characteristics of cases Characteristics of Exposure Exposure categories Relative risk Adjustment for Comments location and (ICD code) controls assessment (95% CI)* potential period confounders Tollerud et al. Multiple 301 men deceased cases, 858 population controls Occupation Occupation in the 1.29 (P = 0.25) (1985) myeloma from mortality records; matched by sex, age at reported on the furnitu

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mono-100C-TABLES/100C-10-Table2.14.pdf

Table 2.14. Case–control studies of wood dust and other malignancies Reference, Organ site Characteristics of cases Characteristics of Exposure Exposure categories Relative risk Adjustment for Comments study location (ICD controls assessment (95% CI)* potential confounders and period code) Serraino et al. Soft tissue 93 (53 men, 40 721 patients (371 men, Interview- Employment in Sex. Age (1992) sarcomas women) patients 350 women), excluding administered furniture/upholstery Friuli Venezia attend

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