Lung cancer mortality among chromate production workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 451-457

  Luippold, R S ^a   Mundt, K A ^a   Austin, R P ^a   Liebig, E ^b   Panko, J ^b   Crump, C ^c   Crump, K ^d   Proctor, D ^e  

^a Applied Epidemiology Inc   (United States)

^b AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

^c Environ ^*  (United States)

^d Environ   (United States)

^e Exponent   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHROMATES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037494897     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.6.451     Document Type: Article

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