Occupational and environmental exposures and lung cancer in an industrialised area in Italy

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 757-763

  Fano, V ^a,b   Michelozzi, P ^b   Ancona, C ^b   Capon, A ^c   Forastiere, F ^b   Perucci, C A ^b  

^a Department of Epidemiology ASL/RME ^*  (Italy)

^b Rome E Health Authority   (Italy)

^c Agency for Public Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOME; HUMAN; ITALY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 4444382258     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2003.010728     Document Type: Article

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