An update of mortality from all causes among white uranium miners from the Colorado Plateau Study Group

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-222

  Roscoe, Robert J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

cohort mortality; lung cancer; pneumoconioses; radon progeny; uranium miners

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINER; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URANIUM MINE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORADO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MINING; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; RADON; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; URANIUM; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031041214     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199702)31:2<211::AID-AJIM11>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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