Quantitative relationship between silica exposure and lung cancer mortality in German uranium miners, 1946-2003

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1188-1194

  Sogl, M ^a   Taeger, D ^b   Pallapies, D ^b   Bruning T ^b   Dufey, F ^a   Schnelzer, M ^a   Straif, K ^c   Walsh, L ^a   Kreuzer, M ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

dose response relationship; epidemiology; lung cancer; silica; uranium miners

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; RADON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DUST; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; URANIUM MINE;

ARSENIC POISONING; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; URANIUM;

EID: 84866908580     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.374     Document Type: Article

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