Lung cancer latency and asbestos liability

Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 277-300

  Mustacchi, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ASBESTOSIS; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEGAL LIABILITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESOTHELIOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

EID: 0029741567     PISSN: 01947648     EISSN: 1521057X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01947649609511008     Document Type: Article

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45. Clinical Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Address correspondence to:Dr. Mustacchi, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143–0560. The author gratefully acknowledges the helpful comments of Dennis J. Shusterman, M.D., M.P.H., Dan J. Tennenhouse M.D., J.D., and several anonymous referees on an earlier draft of this article. All opinions and any errors herein are entirely the author's.