Lung cancer mortality and carbon black exposure: A nested case-control study at a German carbon black production plant

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1242-1252

  Büchte, Sebastian F ^a,b   Morfeld, Peter ^a,b   Wellmann, Jürgen ^c   Bolm Audorff, Ulrich ^d   McCunney, Robert J ^e   Piekarski, Claus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b RAG Mining Solutions GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d Staatlicher Gewerbearzt   (Germany)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARBON;

CANCER MORTALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATRICARIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING; WAR;

ASBESTOS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL OILS; INDUSTRY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOOT;

EID: 33845699597     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000215710.17519.cd     Document Type: Conference Paper

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