Mortality and cancer incidence of workers in finnish road paving companies

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-57

  Kauppinen, Timo ^a   Heikkilä, Pirjo ^a   Partanen, Timo ^a,b   Virtanen, Simo V ^a   Pukkala, Eero ^c   Ylöstalo, Pekka ^a   Burstyn, Igor ^d   Ferro, Gilles ^e   Boffetta, Paolo ^e  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Asphalt; Bitumen; Diesel engine exhaust; External causes; Lung cancer; PAH; Silica dust

Indexed keywords

COAL TAR; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DUST; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; FUME; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INDUSTRY; LIFESTYLE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; VAPOR; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; INCIDENCE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0037226393     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.10161     Document Type: Article

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