Doll-Peto data and estimate were poor

A paper in the Mt Sinai Journal of Medicine concluded the highly influential 1981 Doll/Peto occupational cancer estimate was too low and added it failed to take account of the limitations of the data on which it was based.

Landrigan PJ, Baker DB. Clinical recognition of occupational and environmental disease, Mt Sinai Journal of Medicine, volume 62, number 5, pages 406-411, 1995.

Also: Landrigan PJ, Marsowitz SB, Nicholson WJ, Baker DB. Cancer prevention in the workplace. In: Greenwald P, Kramer BS, Weed DL, eds. Cancer prevention and control. Marcel Dekker Inc, pages 393-410, 1995.

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