Cancer incidence in airline cabin crew: Experience from Sweden

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 810-814

  Linnersjo A ^a   Hammar, N ^a,b   Dammstrom B G ^c   Johansson, M ^c   Eliasch, H ^d  

^a Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Swedish SAS   (Sweden)

^d Flight Medical Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN CANCER; SWEDEN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REGISTRIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0242298191     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.11.810     Document Type: Article

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