摘要：Objectives. In the late 1990s, a birth registry (KBR) was set up for theborough of Mončegorsk in the Kola Peninsula and a cancer registry forArkhangelskaja Oblast (AO), both located in north-west Russia. Thework in this thesis involved an assessment of the quality and content ofthe two registries (1,2), including an estimation of the site- and genderspecificcancer incidence in AO (2). The work also involved the use ofthe birth registry to study the effect of maternal exposure to nickel atthe workplace on the risk of being born with a birth defect (3).International Journal of Circumpolar Health 65:3 2006
