Lung cancer in heavy equipment operators and truck drivers with diesel exhaust exposure in the construction industry

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 516-520

  Jarvholm B ^a,b   Silverman, D ^c  

^a NUS   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARPENTER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRIVER; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SWEDEN;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 0038460615     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.7.516     Document Type: Article

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