Lung cancer mortality in UK nickel-cadmium battery workers, 1947-2000

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 108-116

  Sorahan, T ^a   Esmen, N A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; NICKEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0942301233     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2003.009282     Document Type: Article

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