Lung cancer in chrysotile asbestos workers: Analyses based on the two-stage clonal expansion model

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 917-923

  Richardson, David B ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Cohort study; Lung cancer; Mortality; South Carolina

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOTILE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TEXTILE WORKER; TWO STAGE CLONAL EXPANSION MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TEXTILE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; TEXTILES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68849085348     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-009-9297-z     Document Type: Article

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