Industries and cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 356-370

  Ward, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Burnett, Carol A ^a,c   Ruder, Avima ^a,b   Davis King, Karen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies   (United States)

^c Surveillance Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Industries

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIBROMOETHANE; ACETONE; ARSENIC; ASBESTOS; BENZENE; CADMIUM; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHROMIUM; EPICHLOROHYDRIN; FORMALDEHYDE; FUEL; GLUE; HERBICIDE; HEXANE; HYDROCARBON; INSECTICIDE; METHANOL; MYCOTOXIN; NICKEL; PESTICIDE; PETROLEUM; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RUBBER; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENT; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HAIRDRESSER; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHOE INDUSTRY; WOOD; WOOD DUST;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGRICULTURE; BEAUTY CULTURE; CARCINOGENS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DUST; EUROPE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS; NOSE NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PETROLEUM; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RUBBER; SHOES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WOOD;

EID: 0030755966     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018405321141     Document Type: Review

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