Organic solvents and cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 406-419

  Lynge, Elsebeth ^a   Anttila, Ahti ^b   Hemminki, Kari ^c  

^a DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Malignant neoplasms; Organic solvents

Indexed keywords

1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE; ALCOHOL; ASBESTOS; BENZENE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CARCINOGEN; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; DNA; FLUOROCARBON; GASOLINE; METAL; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PIGMENT; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SOLVENT; STYRENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; XYLENE;

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BENZENE; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CARCINOGENS; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; METHYLENE CHLORIDE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; SOLVENTS; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHANES; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030842386     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018461406120     Document Type: Review

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