Occupational asbestos exposure among respiratory cancer patients in Lithuania

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 455-463

  Everatt, Ruta Petrauskaite ^a,d   Smolianskiene, Gražina ^a   Tossavainen, Antti ^b   Cicenas, Saulius ^c   Jankauskas, Remigijus ^a  

^a Institute of Hygiene   (Lithuania)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d Institute of Hygiene   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Lithuania; Occupational cancer; Occupational exposure; Respiratory cancer

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FEMALE; FOUNDRY; GLASS INDUSTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LITHUANIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAILWAY; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHIPYARD WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; ASBESTOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING;

EID: 34249977112     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20467     Document Type: Article

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