Benzene and lymphohematopoietic malignancies in China

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 61, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 419-432

  Hayes, Richard B ^a   Yin, Songnian ^b   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Li, Guilan ^b   Travis, Lois T ^a   Smith, Martyn T ^a   Linet, Martha S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; BENZENE; CARCINOGENS; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LEUKEMIA, NONLYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0033787879     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00984100050166442     Document Type: Article

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