Cancers in concrete workers: Results of a cohort study of 33 668 workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 264-267

  Knutsson, Anders ^a   Damber, Lena ^b   Järvholm, Bengt ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Constructions workers; Occupational diseases; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; LIP CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SMOKING; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DUST; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SWEDEN;

EID: 0034103965     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.4.264     Document Type: Article

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