Mortality among workers at two triazine herbicide manufacturing plants

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-151

  Sathiakumar, Nalini ^a,b   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a   Cole, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

herbicide; non Hodgkin's lymphoma; occupational epidemiology; triazine manufacturing workers

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; CYANAZINE; HERBICIDE; SIMAZINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0030058627     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199602)29:2<143::AID-AJIM4>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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