Progression of asbestosis predicts lung cancer

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1517-1521

  Oksa, Panu ^a,c   Klockars, Matti ^a   Karjalainen, Antti ^a   Huuskonen, Matti S ^a   Vattulainen, Kimmo ^a   Pukkala, Eero ^b   Nordman, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asbestosis; Cohort study; Follow up; ILO classification; Incidence; Lung cancer; Record linkage; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031781590     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.6.1517     Document Type: Article

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