Mortality and lung cancer in ceramic workers in the Netherlands: Preliminary results

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 26-30

  Meijers, Jan M M ^a,c   Swaen, Gerard M H ^b   Slangen, Jos J M ^b  

^a Regional Public Health Institute   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Regional Public Health Institute Maastricht   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ceramic work; genotoxicity; lung cancer; mortality follow up; silica; silicosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CERAMICS; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SILICOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERAMICS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS; SMOKING;

EID: 0029738184     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199607)30:1<26::AID-AJIM4>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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