Occupational kidney cancer: Exposure to industrial solvents

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 753-764

  Brautbar, Nachman ^a,b   Wu, Michael P ^a   Gabel, Elion ^a   Regev, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzene; Case reports; Industrial; Kidney cancer; Occupation; Organic solvents; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; SOLVENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INHALATION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIAN; SKIN; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER;

EID: 33845645024     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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