1,3-Propane sultone as an extremely potent human carcinogen: Description of an exposed cohort in Germany

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 75, Issue 8-10, 2012, Pages 544-550

  Bolt, Hermann M ^a   Golka, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; PROPANESULTONE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DUODENUM CARCINOMA; GERMANY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COHORT STUDIES; GERMANY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84862557652     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2012.675305     Document Type: Article

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