Asbestos-related lung cancer and mesothelioma in Japan

Industrial Health

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 65-74

  Morinaga, Kenji ^a   Kishimoto, Takumi ^b   Sakatani, Mitsunori ^c   Akira, Masanori ^c   Yokoyama, Kunihiko ^c   Sera, Yoshizumi ^c  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Japan Labour Health and Welfare Organization   (Japan)

^c Natl Kinki Chuo Hosp Chest Dis   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Asbestos body; Case control study; Historical cohort study; Japan; Lung cancer; Mesothelioma

Indexed keywords

AMOSITE; ASBESTOS; CEMENT; CROCIDOLITE;

ASBESTOS BODY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FIBROUS DUST; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MESOTHELIOMA; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SMOKING;

EID: 0034996836     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.39.65     Document Type: Review

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