Occupational female breast and reproductive cancer mortality in British Columbia, Canada, 1950-94

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 246-253

  MacArthur, Amy C ^a   Le, Nhu D ^a,b   Abanto, Zenaida U ^a   Gallagher, Richard P ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Endometrial cancer; Female breast cancer; Mortality odds ratio; Occupational mortality; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZATION; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME OF DEATH; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34447617576     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqm002     Document Type: Article

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