Mortality in employees of a Scottish paper mill

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 535-539

  Coggon, David ^a,c   Wield, Graham ^a   Pannett, Brian ^a   Campbell, Lesley ^a   Boffetta, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Leukemia; Lung; Mill; Mortality; Paper

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; EMPLOYEE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PAPER INDUSTRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PAPER; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0030883664     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199711)32:5<535::AID-AJIM15>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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