Lung cancer in asbestos cement workers in Denmark

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 399-402

  Raffn, Edith ^a,b   Villadsen, Ebbe ^a   Engholm, Gerda ^a   Lynge, Elsebeth ^a  

^a DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^b Clinic of Internal Medicine   (Denmark)

Author keywords

asbestos cement; Denmark; histological type; latency; lung cancer incidence

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CEMENT INDUSTRY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030000201     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.6.399     Document Type: Article

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