Fire fighters, combustion products, and urothelial cancer

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part B: Critical Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-44

  Golka, Klaus ^a   Weistenhöfer, Wobbeke ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACROLEIN; BENZENE; BROMOFORM; BUTANE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROETHANE; CHLOROFORM; CYCLOHEXANE; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPENTANE; CYCLOPENTENE DERIVATIVE; DECANE; DICHLOROETHANE; DICHLOROMETHANE; HALIDE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; METHYL CHLORIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OCTANE; PARA CYMENE; PENTANE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROPANE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FIRES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMOKE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 38049084423     PISSN: 10937404     EISSN: 15216950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10937400701600396     Document Type: Review

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