Cancer mortality in German male workers exposed to phenoxy herbicides and dioxins

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 312-321

  Becher, Heiko ^a   Flesch Janys, Dieter ^b   Kauppinen, Timo ^c   Kogevinas, Manolis ^d,e   Steindorf, Karen ^a   Manz, Alfred ^f   Wahrendorf, Jürgen ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Med Ctr for Chem Workers' Health   (Germany)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^e INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^f Division of Epidemiology ^*

Author keywords

Cohort study; Dioxin exposure; Germany; Lung cancer; Males; Occupation; Total cancer

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DIOXIN; PHENOXY HERBICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHLOROPHENOLS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIOXINS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FURANS; GERMANY; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 0029883340     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00052936     Document Type: Article

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