Cancer incidence among refinery and petrochemical employees in Louisiana, 1983-1999

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 722-730

  Tsai, Shan P ^a,b   Chen, Vivien W ^a   Fox, Erin E ^a   Wendt, Judy K ^a   Cheng Wu, Xiao ^a   Foster, Delia E ^a   Fraser, Alistair E ^a  

^a Shell Oil Co   (United States)

^b SHELL OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; CI; confidence interval; Exp; expected number of cases; Incidence; Louisiana Tumor Registry; LTR; Obs; observed number of cases; Occupational Health; Petrochemical; Refinery; SEER; SIR; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOUTH CANCER; OFFICE WORKER; PENSIONER; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PHARYNX CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROLEUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 4544345258     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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