Canada, chrysotile and cancer: Health Canada's asbestos international expert panel report

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1327-1328

  Stayner, Leslie Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOTILE; ASBESTOS;

ASBESTOSIS; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; GOVERNMENT; LUNG CANCER; MESOTHELIOMA; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR;

ASBESTOS; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; ASBESTOSIS; CANADA; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MESOTHELIOMA; NEOPLASMS; POLITICS; QUEBEC;

EID: 65849113080     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318190eff3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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