Breast cancer and occupational exposures in women in Finland

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 48-53

  Weiderpass, Elisabete ^a,b   Pukkala, Eero ^c   Kauppinen, Timo ^b   Mutanen, Pertti ^b   Paakkulainen, Harri ^b   Vasama Neuvonen, Kaisa ^b   Boffetta, Paolo ^d   Partanen, Timo ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Epidemiology; Finland; Job exposure matrix; Occupational exposures; Women

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ASBESTOS;

BREAST CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; FIBER; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0033020650     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199907)36:1<48::AID-AJIM7>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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