A Thirty-eight Year Comparison of Cancer Incidence and Mortality among Employees at a Connecticut Chemical Plant

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 83-89

  Olsen, Geary W ^a,b   Gondek, Michael R ^a   Flannery, John ^c   Cartmill, Janice B ^a   Bodner, Kenneth M ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

^c 2020 Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGISTER; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONNECTICUT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031066253     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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