The burden of occupational cancer

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 787-788

  Straif, Kurt ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; EDITORIAL; LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

EID: 57149105176     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.038224     Document Type: Editorial

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