Lung cancer risk associated with exposure to man-made fibers

Drug and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 223-242

  Moolgavkar, Suresh H ^a,b   Luebeck, E Georg ^a   Turim, Jay ^b   Brown, Robert C ^c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b Sciences International Inc   (United States)

^c Toxicology Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FIBER; LUNG BURDEN; LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; CERAMICS; CLONE CELLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINERAL FIBERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034105578     PISSN: 01480545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/DCT-100100112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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