Leukemia mortality by cell type in petroleum workers with potential exposure to benzene

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1996, Pages 1381-1392

  Raabe, Gerhard K ^a   Wong, Otto ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b Applied Health Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzene; Disease specificity; Epidemiology; Gasoline; Hydrocarbons; Leukemia cell types; Meta analysis; Mortality; Petroleum; Refinery; Threshold

Indexed keywords

BENZENE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CELL TYPE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030444988     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.961041381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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