Chemical exposures of rocket-engine test-stand personnel and cancer mortality in a cohort of aerospace workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 903-910

  Ritz, Beate ^a   Morgenstern, Hal ^a   Froines, John ^a   Moncau, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; KEROSENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COSMONAUT; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY;

CARCINOGENS; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDRAZINES; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HESPERIS;

EID: 0032709303     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199910000-00011     Document Type: Article

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