Mortality from cancer and other causes of death among synthetic rubber workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 230-235

  Sathiakumar, Nalini ^a   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a   Hovinga, Mary ^a   Macaluso, Maurizio ^a   Julian, Jim A ^b   Larson, Rodney ^c   Cole, Philip ^a   Muir, David C F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; RUBBER; STYRENE;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES; WORKER;

EID: 0031916570     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.4.230     Document Type: Article

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