Occupational cancer risk in pilots and flight attendants: Current epidemiological knowledge

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-80

  Blettner, Maria ^a,c   Grosche, Bernd ^b   Zeeb, Hajo ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPLANE PILOT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

AVIATION; COSMIC RADIATION; EUROPE; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031753360     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050097     Document Type: Review

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