Socioeconomic status, social mobility and cancer occurrence during working life: A case-control study among French electricity and gas workers

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 495-502

  Chevalier, A ^a  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Electricity and gas workers; France; Social mobility; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CAREER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIAL STATUS; UTILITY WORKS, APPLIANCES AND SERVICES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; POWER PLANTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032737095     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008921720493     Document Type: Article

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