Cancer Mortality in Chinese Chrysotile Asbestos Miners: Exposure-Response Relationships

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Xiaorong ^a   Yano, Eiji ^b   Lin, Sihao ^a   Yu, Ignatius T S ^a   Lan, Yajia ^c   Tse, Lap Ah ^a   Qiu, Hong ^a   Christiani, David C ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; ASBESTOSIS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882632471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071899     Document Type: Article

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