Reactive chemicals and cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 473-490

  Blair, Aaron ^a   Kazerouni, Neely ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Reactive chemicals

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; ACRYLONITRILE; BIS(CHLOROMETHYL) ETHER; CARCINOGEN; CHEMICAL AGENT; CHLOROMETHYL METHYL ETHER; DNA; ETHYLENE OXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; MUSTARD GAS; SULFURIC ACID; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INHALATION; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACRYLONITRILE; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; BIS(CHLOROMETHYL) ETHER; BUTADIENES; CARCINOGENS; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHYLENE OXIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LEUKEMIA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; METHYL ETHERS; MUSTARD GAS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NOSE NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RISK FACTORS; SULFURIC ACIDS; SWEDEN; VINYL CHLORIDE;

EID: 0030800174     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018417623867     Document Type: Article

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