Is exposure to silica associated with lung cancer in the absence of silicosis? A meta-analytical approach to an important public health question

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 997-1004

  Erren, Thomas C ^a   Glende, Christine B ^a   Morfeld, Peter ^b   Piekarski, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Evonik Energy Services GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Lung cancer; Meta analysis; Non silicosis; Silica

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; DUST EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG CANCER; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION RISK; SILICOSIS; SMOKING HABIT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARCINOGENS; COMORBIDITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS;

EID: 68449103182     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-008-0387-0     Document Type: Article

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