Mortality from solid tumors among workers in formaldehyde industries: An update of the NCI cohort

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1015-1026

  Beane Freeman, Laura E ^a   Blair, Aaron ^a   Lubin, Jay H ^a   Stewart, Patricia A ^b   Hayes, Richard B ^c   Hoover, Robert N ^d   Hauptmann, Michael ^e  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Stewart Exposure Assessments LLC   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics   (United States)

^e NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Formaldehyde

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881663355     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22214     Document Type: Article

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