Update of mortality and cancer incidence in the Australian petroleum industry cohort

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 476-481

  Gun, R T ^a   Pratt, N ^a   Ryan, P ^a   Roder, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CANCER COUNCIL SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRIVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MELANOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PETROLEUM;

EID: 33745638989     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.023796     Document Type: Article

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