Cancer incidence among 10,211 airline pilots: A nordic study

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 699-706

  Pukkala, Eero ^a,i   Aspholm, Rafael ^b   Auvinen, Anssi ^c,d   Eliasch, Harald ^e   Gundestrup, Maryanne ^f   Haldorsen, Tor ^g   Hammar, Niklas ^h   Hrafnkelsson, Jön ⁱ   Kyyrönen, Pentti ^a   Linnersjö, Anette ^h   Rafnsson, Vilhjálmur ^j   Storm, Hans ^k   Tveten, Ulf ^l  

^a FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^b Finnish Airline Pilots' Association   (Finland)

^c STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e Swedish SAS   (Sweden)

^f Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^g Kreftregisteret   (Norway)

^h Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

ⁱ Landspitalinn ^*  (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^k DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^l INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Cohort studies; Cosmic radiation; Hormones; Neoplasms; Occupational exposure; Record linkage; Registries

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIRCRAFT; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK; SCANDINAVIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0038354715     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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