A further cohort study of workers employed at a factory manufacturing chemicals for the rubber industry, with special reference to the chemicals 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT), aniline, phenyl-β-naphthylamine and o-toluidine

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 106-115

  Sorahan, Tom ^a   Hamilton, Linda ^a   Jackson, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 mercaptobenzothiazole; Aniline; O toluidine; Phenyl naphthylamine

Indexed keywords

2 MERCAPTOBENZOTHIAZOLE; 2 METHYLANILINE; 2 NAPHTHYLAMINE; ANILINE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; JOB ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

2-NAPHTHYLAMINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; BENZOTHIAZOLES; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RUBBER; THIAZOLES; TOLUIDINES; WALES;

EID: 0033627357     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.2.106     Document Type: Article

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