Cause-specific mortality in a Chinese chrysotile textile worker cohort

Cancer Science

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 245-249

  Wang, Xiaorong ^a   Lin, Sihao ^a   Yu, Ignatius ^a   Qiu, Hong ^a   Lan, Yajia ^b   Yano, Eiji ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRYSOTILE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; BLADDER CANCER; BONE CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CHINA; COR PULMONALE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CANCER; PENIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; SMOKING; TEXTILE WORKER; THYMUS CANCER;

ADULT; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY HEART DISEASE; SMOKING; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 84873742110     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: 13497006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cas.12060     Document Type: Article

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