Mortality among semiconductor and storage device-manufacturing workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 996-1014

  Beall, Colleen ^a,d   Bender, Thomas J ^a   Cheng, Hong ^a   Herrick, Robert ^b   Kahn, Amy ^c   Matthews, Robert ^a   Sathiakumar, Nalini ^a   Schymura, Maria ^c   Stewart, James ^b   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d RPHB 523B ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; DEVICE; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYMENT; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PROSTATE CANCER; SEMICONDUCTOR; STORAGE DEVICE; UNITED STATES; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

EID: 27144540981     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000183094.42763.f0     Document Type: Article

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