Role of exposure to radon and silicosis on the cell type of lung carcinoma in German uranium miners

Cancer

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 881-889

  Taeger, Dirk ^a,f   Fritsch, Arno ^a   Wiethege, Thorsten ^a,b   Johnen, Georg ^a   Eisenmenger, Andreas ^c   Wesch, Horst ^c   Ko, Yon ^d   Stier, Sebastian ^e   Muller, Klaus Michael ^b   Bruning, Thomas ^a   Pesch, Beate ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d Johanniter Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^f INSTITUT DER RUHR UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM IPA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Histology; Lung carcinoma; Radon; Silicosis; Uranium mining

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AGED; AUTOPSY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DUST; GERMANY; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; QUARTZ; RADON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICOSIS; URANIUM;

EID: 32544453868     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21677     Document Type: Article

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