Airborne occupational exposures and risk of oesophageal and cardia adenocarcinoma

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-112

  Jansson, C ^a   Plato, N ^a   Johansson, A L V ^a   Nyren O ^a   Lagergren, J ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARDIA CARCINOMA; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN;

EID: 31644446784     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.022467     Document Type: Article

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