Occupation and skin cancer: The results of the HELIOS-I multicenter case-control study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Suárez, Berta ^a   López Abente, Gonzalo ^a   Martínez, Carmen ^b   Navarro, Carmen ^c   Tormo, Maria José ^c   Rosso, Stefano ^d   Schraub, Simon ^e   Gafà, Lorenzo ^f   Sancho Garnier, Hélène ^g   Wechsler, Janine ^h   Zanetti, Roberto ^d  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^c General Directorate of Public Health   (Spain)

^d Registro Tumori Piemonte   (Italy)

^e CENTRE PAUL STRAUSS   (France)

^f Lega Italiana per la Lotta Contro i Tumori Sez Ragusa   (Italy)

^g Parc Euromédecine   (France)

^h HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BURN; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LIVESTOCK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; SKIN CANCER; SOLAR RADIATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34848916999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-180     Document Type: Article

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