Cohort study of Air Canada pilots: Mortality, cancer incidence, and leukemia risk

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-143

  Band, Pierre R ^a   Le, Nhu D ^a   Fang, Raymond ^a   Deschamps, Michèle ^a   Goldman, Andrew J ^a   Gallagher, Richard P ^a   Moody, Joanne ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

aviation; leukemia; mortality; neoplasms; risk

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECTUM CANCER;

EID: 0030059806     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008722     Document Type: Article

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