Mortality and cancer incidence among Lithuanian cement producing workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 529-534

  Smailyte, G ^a,b   Kurtinaitis, J ^b   Andersen, A ^c  

^a Lithuanian Cancer Registry   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c Cancer Registry of Norway ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CEMENT INDUSTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STOMACH CANCER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LITHUANIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2642534446     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2003.009936     Document Type: Article

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