An assessment of potential cancer risk following occupational exposure to ethanol

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part B: Critical Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 188-205

  Bevan, Ruth J ^a   Slack, Rebecca J ^a   Holmes, Philip ^a   Levy, Leonard S ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARCINOGEN;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ALCOHOL OXIDATION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; BREAST CANCER; BURN; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMA; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; ELIMINATION REACTION; EXCRETION; EXPOSURE; EYE IRRITATION; EYE PAIN; FERTILITY; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS DEATH; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LACRIMATION; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHARYNX CANCER; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION; TOXICOKINETICS; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CARCINOGENS; ETHANOL; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION;

EID: 66549103951     PISSN: 10937404     EISSN: 15216950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10937400902894160     Document Type: Review

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