Occupational Exposures and Salivary Gland Cancer Mortality among African American and White Workers in the United States

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 287-297

  Wilson, Robin T ^a   Moore, Lee E ^a   Dosemeci, Mustafa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; FORMALDEHYDE; SOLVENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVARY GLAND CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; PIERINAE;

EID: 1642343940     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000116802.01928.83     Document Type: Article

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