Toward risk reduction: Predicting the future burden of occupational cancer

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 173, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1069-1077

  Hutchings, Sally ^a   Rushton, Lesley ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cost of illness; forecasting; neoplasms; occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

CANCER; CARCINOGEN; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH RISK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICA; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79955617717     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq434     Document Type: Article

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