Mortality experience of male workers at a UK tin smelter

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 215-226

  Binks, K ^a   Doll, R ^b   Gillies, M ^a   Holroyd, C ^c   Jones, Steve R ^a   McGeoghegan, D ^a   Scott, L ^a   Wakeford, R ^d   Walker, P ^a  

^a Westlakes Science and Technology Park   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Rio Tinto plc   (United Kingdom)

^d SELLAFIELD LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Ischaemic heart disease; Lung cancer; Mortality; Tin smelter

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CARCINOGEN; LEAD; METAL ION; RADIOISOTOPE; TIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMELTER; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENGLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TIN;

EID: 18944371961     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi026     Document Type: Article

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