Cancer incidence and mortality in workers employed at a transformer manufacturing plant: Update to a cohort study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-62

  Yassi, Annalee ^a,b   Tate, Robert B ^b   Routledge, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Caneer incidence; Gallbladder cancer; Historical cohort study; Mineral oil; Occupational epidemiology; Pancreatic cancer; Record linkage; Transformer manufacturing

Indexed keywords

MINERAL OIL;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; PANCREAS CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKER;

CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; ELECTRICITY; EMOLLIENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIAL OILS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MINERAL OIL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RECORDS;

EID: 0038149745     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.10237     Document Type: Article

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