Dose-Response and Risk Assessment of Airborne Hexavalent Chromium and Lung Cancer Mortality

Risk Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1147-1163

  Crump, Casey ^a   Crump, Kenny ^a   Hack, Eric ^a   Luippold, Rose ^b   Mundt, Kenneth ^b   Liebig, Elizabeth ^c   Panko, Julie ^c   Paustenbach, Dennis ^d   Proctor, Deborah ^e  

^a Environ   (United States)

^b Applied Epidemiology Inc   (United States)

^c AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

^d CARDNO CHEMRISK   (United States)

^e EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Air toxics; Dose response assessment; Hexavalent chromium; Occupational exposure; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARCINOGENS; CHROMIUM; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PULMONARY DISEASES; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

LUNG CANCER MORTALITY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE;

CANCER; CHROMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORKER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHROMATES; CHROMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OHIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347052825     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0272-4332.2003.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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