Increased cancer risk among surgeons in an orthopaedic hospital

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 498-500

  Mastrangelo, Giuseppe ^a   Fedeli, Ugo ^a   Fadda, Emanuela ^a   Giovanazzi, Angelo ^b   Scoizzato, Luca ^a   Saia, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Provincial Health Authority   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dosimetric assessment; Occupational exposure; Orthopaedic surgeons; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHONDROSARCOMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LARYNX TUMOR; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORTHOPEDICS; OVARY TUMOR; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RECTUM TUMOR; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SURGEON; TESTIS CARCINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORTHOPEDICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 24944504539     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi048     Document Type: Article

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