The health watch case-control study of leukemia and benzene: The story so far

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 80-89

  Glass, Deborah C ^a,c   Gray, Christopher N ^b   Jolley, Damien J ^b   Gibbons, Carl ^b   Sim, Malcolm R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benzene; Case control study; Exposure; Leukemia; Multiple myeloma; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; Petroleum industry

Indexed keywords

BENZENE;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LEUKEMIA; MATERIALS HANDLING; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK;

EID: 33845653069     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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