Cancer risk and mortality patterns among silicotic men in Sweden and Denmark

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 633-638

  Brown, Linda Morris ^a   Gridley, Gloria ^a   Olsen, Jørgen H ^b   Mellemkjær, Lene ^b   Linet, Martha S ^a   Fraumeni Jr , Joseph F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; SILICOSIS; SWEDEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SILICOSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030849324     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199707000-00008     Document Type: Article

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