Cancer incidence among workers exposed to softwood dust in Lithuania

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 449-451

  Smailyte, Giedre ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LITHUANIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CAVITY; NOSE CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOFTWOOD DUST; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WOOD DUST;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DUST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LITHUANIA; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK; WOOD;

EID: 84861194570     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2011-100253     Document Type: Article

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