Motor vehicle manufacturing and prostate cancer

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-70

  Brown, David A ^a   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Occupational exposure; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT; METAL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CANCER MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; FOUNDRY; FUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATE CANCER; WORK;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034129822     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0274(200007)38:1<59::AID-AJIM7>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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