On the other hand they indicate deficiency above the conventional significance level for lung cancer in farm workers of Caernarvon, Merioneth, Denbigh, Flint and Cheshire. It is evident from this that men who had worked habitually with soil or coal, slate or igneous rock showed pronounced excess of stomach cancer rates compared with men who had not done so, the excess being highly significant for the farm and quarry groups in the Caernarvon-Merioneth area and for farm and coal mine groups in the Denbigh-Flint area, but absent in the limestone and sandstone quarry workers of the latter area.
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A study of cancer mortality in farming, quarrying, mining and other occupations in North Wales and Cheshire.
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