Dangerous and cancer-causing properties of products and chemicals in the oil refining and petrochemical industries. Part XXX: Causal relationship between chronic myelogenous leukemia and benzene-containing solvents

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 110-119

  Mehlman, Myron A ^a,b,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzene; Cancer; Chronic myelogenous leukemia; CML; Leukemia; Solvents

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; SOLVENT;

CANCER; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LEUKEMIA; LITERATURE; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OIL INDUSTRY; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845645026     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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