Cancer risk among Finnish food industry workers

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2567-2571

  Laakkonen, Aarne ^a   Kauppinen, Timo ^a   Pukkala, Eero ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Food industry; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; INHALATION; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33646395122     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21702     Document Type: Article

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