Re: Mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies and brain cancer among embalmers exposed to formaldehyde

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 102, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1518-1519

  Cole, Philip ^a   Adami, Hans Olov ^b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Mandel, Jack S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; FIXATIVE;

BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LETTER; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957845969     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djq332     Document Type: Letter

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