Lung cancer in Yorkshire chrome platers, 1972-97

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 385-389

  Sorahan, Tom ^a   Harrington, J Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromium plating; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CHROMIC ACID; CHROMIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SMOKING;

UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 0034027067     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.6.385     Document Type: Article

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