Exposures to silica mixed dust and cohort mortality study in tin mines: Exposure-response analysis and risk assessment of lung cancer

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 67-76

  Chen, Weihong ^a,d   Yang, Jian ^b   Chen, Jingqiong ^a   Bruch, Joachim ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Hospital of Dachang Tin Mine   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Lung cancer; Mixed mineral dust; Mortality; Pneumoconiosis; Silica

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIN;

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; MINERAL DUST; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS; TIN;

EID: 32344452563     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20248     Document Type: Article

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