Occupational risk factors for pancreatic cancer among female textile workers in Shanghai, China

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 788-793

  Li, W ^a,c   Ray, R M ^a   Gao, D L ^b   Fitzgibbons, E D ^e   Seixas, N S ^c   Camp, J E ^c   Wernli, K J ^a,c   Astrakianakis, G ^d   Feng, Z ^a,c   Thomas, D B ^a,c   Checkoway, H ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b ZHONGSHAN HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia   (Canada)

^e CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TEXTILE WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 33845873293     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.026229     Document Type: Article

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