An occupational cohort mortality study of women in the German rubber industry: 1976 to 1991

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 807-812

  Mundt, Kenneth A ^a,b   Weiland, Stephan K ^a,b   Bucher, Annette M ^a,b   Straif, Kurt ^a   Werner, Barbara ^a   Chambless, Lloyd ^a,c   Keil, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUBBER;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RUBBER;

EID: 0032886115     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199909000-00013     Document Type: Article

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