An updated study of mortality among North American synthetic rubber industry workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 822-829

  Sathiakumar, N ^a   Graft, J ^b   Macaluso, M ^a   Maldonado, G ^c   Matthews, R ^a   Delzell, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; STYRENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORECTAL CANCER; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NORTH AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RUBBER INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUTADIENES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; ONTARIO; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RUBBER; STYRENE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28444492685     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.018176     Document Type: Article

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