Mortality and cancer incidence among tire manufacturing workers hired in or after 1962

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 680-690

  Beall, Colleen ^a   Corn, Morton ^b   Cheng, Hong ^a   Matthews, Robert ^a   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Morton Corn and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE; STOMACH CANCER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGISTRIES; RUBBER; TEXAS;

EID: 34250335287     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318074bb30     Document Type: Article

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