Wood dust exposure and risk of lung cancer

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 599-604

  Bhatti, Parveen ^a   Newcomer, Laura ^a   Onstad, Lynn ^a   Teschke, Kay ^b   Camp, Janice ^c   Morgan, Michael ^c   Vaughan, Thomas L ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEISURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SMOKING; WOOD DUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DUST; FEMALE; HOBBIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON; WOOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960092510     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.060004     Document Type: Article

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