Oils and cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 386-405

  Tolbert, Paige E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutting fluids; Cutting oils; Metalworking; Mineral oil; Nitrosamines; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

2 NAPHTHYLAMINE; ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; AROMATIC COMPOUND; ASBESTOS; BENZIDINE DERIVATIVE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; CADMIUM; CARBON; CHROMIUM; COBALT; ENDOTOXIN; ETHANOLAMINE; FORMALDEHYDE; INTERFERON; LEAD; LUBRICATING AGENT; MINERAL OIL; MOLYBDENUM; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; NICKEL; NITROSAMINE; OIL; PARAFFIN; PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SOLVENT; SULFUR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNINDEXED DRUG;

CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

2-NAPHTHYLAMINE; BENZO(A)PYRENE; CARCINOGENS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ETHANOLAMINE; FORMALDEHYDE; GOSSYPIUM; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; INDUSTRIAL OILS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALLURGY; MINERAL OIL; NAPHTHACENES; NEOPLASMS; NITROSAMINES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN; POLYCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; PRINTING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SULFUR; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030877261     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018409422050     Document Type: Review

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