Controlling the healthy worker survivor effect: An example of arsenic exposure and respiratory cancer

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 455-462

  Arrighi, H M ^a,b   Hertz Picciotto, I ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

arsenic; bias; healthy worker effect; respiratory tract neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0029683682     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.7.455     Document Type: Article

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