Quantitative exposure to metalworking fluids and bladder cancer incidence in a cohort of autoworkers

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 169, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1471-1478

  Friesen, Melissa C ^a   Costello, Sadie ^a   Eisen, Ellen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Cox model; Ethanolamines; Lung neoplasms; Mineral oil; Nitrosamines; Polycyclic hydrocarbons, aromatic; Urinary bladder neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ETHANOLAMINE; MINERAL OIL; NITROSAMINE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; METAL;

CANCER; CARCINOGEN; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH RISK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; ADULT; AGED; BLADDER TUMOR; CAR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILES; COHORT STUDIES; ETHANOLAMINES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; NITROSAMINES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67649223453     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp073     Document Type: Article

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