Mortality among benzene-exposed workers in China

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1996, Pages 1349-1352

  Hayes, Richard B ^a   Yin, Song Nian ^b   Dosemeci, Mustafa ^a   Li, Gui Lan ^b   Wacholder, Sholom ^a   Chow, Wong Ho ^a   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Wang, Yao Zu ^c   Dai, Tan Rong ^d   Chao, Xin Jie ^c   Jiang, Zhong Lian ^e   Ye, Pei Zheng ^e   Zhao, Hong Bin ^e   Kou, Qing Rui ^e   Zhang, Wan You ^e   Meng, Juan Fei ^e   Zho, Jie Sheng ^e   Lin, Xia Fang ^f   Ding, Cheng Yu ^e   Li, Chin Yang ^g   Zhang, Zhi Nan ^h   Li, De Gao ^h   Travis, Lois B ^a   Blot, William J ^a   Linet, Martha S ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Stations Pub Hlth Prev of Infect ^*  (China)

^d Stations Pub Hlth Prev of Infect   (China)

^e Inst Labor   (China)

^f Inst Labor Hlth and Occup Dis   (China)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Benzene; Cancer; Epidemiology; Hematopoietic; Lung cancer; Lymphatic

Indexed keywords

BENZENE;

CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY;

EID: 12644284482     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.961041349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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