Exposure to high concentrations of nitrosamines and cancer mortality among a cohort of rubber workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 180-187

  Straif, Kurt ^a   Weiland, Stephan K ^a   Bungers, Martina ^a   Holthenrich, Dagmar ^a   Taeger, Dirk ^a   Yi, Sun ^a   Keil, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Nitrosamines; Rubber industry

Indexed keywords

NITROSAMINE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; JOB ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STOMACH CANCER; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; NITROSAMINES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RUBBER;

EID: 0034021989     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.3.180     Document Type: Article

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