Butadiene cancer exposure-response modeling: Based on workers in the styrene-butadiene-rubber industry: Total leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and chronic myelogenous leukemia

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 332-341

  Sielken, Robert L ^a   Valdez Flores, Ciriaco ^a  

^a Sielken & Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

1,3 Butadiene; Acute myelogenous leukemia; Cancer exposure response model; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Chronic myelogenous leukemia; Cox proportional hazards regression model; Environmental excess risk characterization; Epidemiology; Leukemia; Styrene butadiene rubber industry workers

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; RUBBER; STYRENE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

BUTADIENES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ELASTOMERS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STYRENES;

EID: 79960136318     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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