Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans and their association with cancer mortality among workers in one automobile foundry factory

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-111

  Wang, Lihua ^a   Weng, Shaofan ^a   Wen, Sheng ^b   Shi, Tingming ^b   Sun, Gangtao ^a   Zeng, Yuyu ^c   Qi, Cheng ^c   Chen, Weihong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Dongfeng Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Disease   (China)

Author keywords

Air; Automobile foundry; Cancer mortality; Dust; PCDD Fs

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; DUST SAMPLING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FRONT-LINE WORKERS; PCDD/FS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZOFURANS; RELATIVE RISKS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIOS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT;

AIR; AUTOMOBILES; DUST; FOUNDRIES; TOXIC MATERIALS;

DISEASES;

POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PCDD;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST EXPOSURE; ECOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

AUTOMOBILES; BENZOFURANS; COHORT STUDIES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 84869869217     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.073     Document Type: Article

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