Cancer Incidence Among Union Carpenters in New Jersey

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1059-1067

  Dement, John ^a   Pompeii, Lisa ^a   Lipkus, Isaac M ^a   Samsa, Gregory P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARPENTER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERITONEUM CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RISK FACTOR; TESTIS CANCER; TRACHEA CANCER; TRADE UNION; UNITED STATES; WOOD DUST;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DUST; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LABOR UNIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW JERSEY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; TIME FACTORS; WOOD;

BRONCHUS;

EID: 0242352689     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000085892.01486.6a     Document Type: Article

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