Cancer incidence within a cohort occupationally exposed to asbestos: A study of dose - Response relationships

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 832-836

  Clin, Bénédicte ^a   Morlais, Fabrice ^a   Launoy, Guy ^a   Guizard, Anne Valérie ^b   Dubois, Brice ^a   Bouvier, Véronique ^a   Desoubeaux, Nelly ^a   Marquignon, Marie France ^a   Raffaelli, Claude ^c   Paris, Christophe ^d   Galateau Salle, Françoise ^a   Guittet, Lydia ^a   Letourneux, Marc ^a  

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Calvados General Cancer Registry   (France)

^c GISTAF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERITONEUM MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ASBESTOS; CARCINOGENS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80053921973     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.059790     Document Type: Article

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