Lung cancer mortality and iron oxide exposure in a French steel-producing factory

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 175-181

  Bourgkard, E ^a   Wild, P ^a   Courcot, B ^b   Diss, M ^c   Ettlinger, J ^b   Goutet, P ^d   Hemon D ^e   Marquis, N ^f   Mur, J M ^a,e   Rigal, C ^b   Rohn Janssens, M P ^b   Moulin, J J ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ET DE SÉCURITÉ   (France)

^b ARCELOR   (France)

^c ARCELORMITTAL   (France)

^d LICE   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f LECES Environment ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; OILS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SMOKING; STEEL; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 61849122976     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.038299     Document Type: Article

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