Incidence of cancer among female flight attendants: A meta-analysis

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 127-132

  Tokumaru, Osamu ^a,b   Haruki, Kosuke ^a   Bacal, Kira ^c   Katagiri, Tomomi ^a   Yamamoto, Taisuke ^a   Sakurai, Yutaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COSMIC RADIATION; DATABASE OF ABSTRACTS OF REVIEWS OF EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEISURE; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MEDLINE; MELANOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SUN EXPOSURE; THYROID CANCER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; AVIATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COSMIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 33646702619     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2006.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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