Mortality and cancer experience of Quebec aluminum reduction plant workers. Part I: The reduction plants and coal tar pitch volatile (CTPV) exposure assessment

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 997-1008

  Lavoué, Jérôme ^a,c   Gérin, Michel ^a   Côté, Jacques ^b   Lapointe, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ALCAN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BENZO[A]PYRENE; COAL TAR;

ALUMINUM FACTORY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMELTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALUMINUM; BENZENE; BENZO(A)PYRENE; COAL TAR; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; METALLURGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUEBEC;

EID: 34548569999     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181484cf3     Document Type: Article

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