Incomplete follow-up in the National Cancer Institute's formaldehyde worker study and the impact on subsequent reanalyses and causal evaluations

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-236

  Marsh, Gary M ^a   Youk, Ada O ^a   Morfeld, Peter ^b,c   Collins, James J ^d   Morel Symons, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Risk Assessment of Evonik Industries   (Germany)

^d DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^e DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formaldehyde; Incomplete mortality follow up; Leukemia; Nasopharyngeal cancer; National Cancer Institute; Reanalyses

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDITY;

COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957353319     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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