A simple approach to performing quantitative cancer risk assessment using published results from occupational epidemiology studies

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 332, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 81-87

  Van Wijngaarden, Edwin ^a   Hertz Picciotto, Irva ^b  

^a ENVIRON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Occupational epidemiology; Risk assessment; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISKS; ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS;

CARCINOGENS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORMALDEHYDE; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDS; TUMORS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; FORMALDEHYDE; NICKEL; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATOR; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444373952     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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