Crystalline silica exposure and lung cancer mortality in diatomaceous earth industry workers: A quantitative risk assessment

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 38-45

  Rice, F L ^a   Park, R ^a   Stayner, L ^a   Smith, R ^a   Gilbert, S ^a   Checkoway, H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cristobalite; Crystalline silica; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

INFUSORIAL EARTH; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIATOMACEOUS EARTH; DUST; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

LIGUSTICUM PORTERI;

EID: 0035133136     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.58.1.38     Document Type: Article

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