Mortality from lung cancer among silicotic patients in Sardinia: An update study with 10 more years of follow up

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 786-793

  Carta, P ^a   Aru, G ^a   Manca, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crystalline silica; Lung cancer mortality; Silicosis

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICOSIS; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RADON DAUGHTERS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SILICOSIS; SILICOTUBERCULOSIS; SMOKING; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035177038     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.58.12.786     Document Type: Article

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