Bladder cancer risks in workers manufacturing chemicals for the rubber industry

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 496-501

  Sorahan, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 mercaptobenzothiazole; Aniline; Cohort study; Occupational cancer; Ortho toluidine; Phenyl naphthylamine

Indexed keywords

2 MERCAPTOBENZOTHIAZOLE; 2 METHYLANILINE; 2 NAPHTHYLAMINE; ANILINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOGENS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RUBBER; TOLUIDINES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WALES;

EID: 54949130152     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqn104     Document Type: Article

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