Cancer incidence in the Swedish leather tanning industry: Updated findings 1958-99

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 461-464

  Mikoczy, Z ^a   Hagmar, L ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILINE; BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; CHLOROPHENOL; CHROMIUM; FORMALDEHYDE; METHYLMERCURY; PESTICIDE; TANNIN;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEATHER INDUSTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN; TUMOR PROMOTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN; TANNING;

EID: 21344440805     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.017038     Document Type: Article

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