Cancer mortality by occupation among New Zealand women: 1988-1997

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1266, 2007, Pages

  Firth, Hilda ^a   Gray, Andrew ^a   Carpenter, Lucy M ^b   Cox, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEW ZEALAND; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OFFICE WORKER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TEACHER; TEXTILE WORKER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 37549048583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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