Global magnitude of reported and unreported mesothelioma

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 514-518

  Park, Eun Kee ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Hoshuyama, Tsutomu ^a   Cheng, Tsun Jen ^b   Delgermaa, Vanya ^a   Le, Giang Vinh ^a   Sorahan, Tom ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Frequency; Mesothelioma; Mortality; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESOTHELIOMA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ASBESTOS; CARCINOGENS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MESOTHELIOMA;

EID: 79955567765     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002845     Document Type: Article

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