Does exposure to coal dust prevent or cause lung cancer?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 167-168

  Stayner, Leslie T ^a   Graber, Judith M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL;

AIR POLLUTION; AUTOPSY; CANCER MORTALITY; COAL MINING; DUST EXPOSURE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COAL; COAL MINING; DUST; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 79951593826     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.048223     Document Type: Editorial

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