Cancer mortality in poultry slaughtering/processing plant workers belonging to a union pension fund

Environmental Research

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 588-594

  Johnson, Eric S ^a   Ndetan, Harrison ^a   Lo, Ka Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooking; Curing; Killing chickens and turkeys; Oncogenic viruses; Wrapping fumes

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY RISK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POULTRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRAL DISEASE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COOKING; FUME; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; MOUTH CANCER; MYELOFIBROSIS; MYELOMA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PENIS CANCER; PENSION; PHARYNX CANCER; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TRACHEA CANCER; TUMOR VIRUS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WORKER;

ABATTOIRS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; FOOD PACKAGING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LABOR UNIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; PENSIONS; POULTRY; RISK FACTORS;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 77954952640     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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