Mortality from cancer and other causes in an Italian cohort of male rubber tire workers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 345-349

  Pira, Enrico ^a   Pelucchi, Claudio ^b   Romano, Canzio ^a   Manzari, Marco ^a   Negri, Eva ^b   La Vecchia, Carlo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ITALY; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE; MOUTH CANCER; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; PHARYNX CANCER; RUBBER TIRE WORKER; VIOLENCE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RUBBER; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84859761731     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318244503c     Document Type: Article

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