Cancer mortality among female and male workers occupationally exposed to inorganic lead in the printing industry

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 87-92

  Ilychova, Svetlana A ^a   Zaridze, David G ^a  

^a N N BLOKHIN RUSSIAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LEAD; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; MOSCOW; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PRINTING; PUBLISHING; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84855733636     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2011.065201     Document Type: Article

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