Cancer in veterinarians

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 289-297

  Fritschi, Lin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Occupation; Veterinarians

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CARCINOGEN; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANESTHESIST; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTIST; DRUG CARCINOGENICITY; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM TUMOR; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MELANOMA; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIST; REVIEW; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; X RAY; ZOONOSIS;

ANESTHETICS; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; INFECTION; INSECTICIDES; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; VETERINARIANS; X-RAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034119529     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.5.289     Document Type: Review

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