Identification of occupational cancer risks in British Columbia. Part I: Methodology, descriptive results, and analysis of cancer risks, by cigarette smoking categories of 15,463 incident cancer cases

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 224-232

  Band, Pierre R ^a,b   Spinelli, John J ^a,c   Threlfall, William J ^a   Fang, Raymond ^a   Le, Nhu D ^a   Gallagher, Richard P ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0032925424     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199904000-00004     Document Type: Article

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