Cancer and wood-related occupational exposure in the Amazon region of Brazil

Environmental Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 132-140

  Bahia, Sílvia Helena Árias ^a   Mattos, Inês Echenique ^b   Koifman, Sergio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Occupational exposure; Wood

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DUST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WOOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LIVER CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NOSE CARCINOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARANASAL SINUS CARCINOMA; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; WOOD;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BRAZIL; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RIVERS; WOOD;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22844444054     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2004.12.005     Document Type: Article

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