Quantitative cancer risk assessment for dioxins using an occupational cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1998, Pages 663-670

  Becher, Heiko ^a   Steindorf, Karen ^a   Flesch Janys, Dieter ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Hamburg State Department for Social Affairs Family Health and Consumer Protection   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute risk; Attributable risk; Dose response analysis; TCDD

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; HERBICIDE;

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031860764     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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