Wood dust exposure and cancer incidence: A retrospective cohort study of furniture workers in Estonia

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 501-511

  Innos, Kaire ^a,b   Rahu, Mati ^a   Rahu, Kaja ^a   Lang, Irina ^a   Leon, David A ^a,c  

^a Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine Tallinn   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Furniture workers; Occupational exposure; Retrospective cohort study; Women; Wood dust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARPENTER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; WOOD DUST;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DUST; EMPLOYMENT; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NOSE NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WOOD;

EID: 0034081647     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(200005)37:5<501::AID-AJIM6>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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