Cotton dust, endotoxin and cancer mortality among the Shanghai textile workers cohort: A 30-year analysis

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 722-729

  Fang, S C ^a,b   Mehta, A J ^a,c,d   Hang, J Q ^e   Eisen, E A ^a,f   Dai, H L ^e   Zhang, H X ^e   Su, L ^a   Christiani, D C ^a,g  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e People s Hospital of Shanghai Putuo District   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COTTON DUST; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STOMACH CANCER; TEXTILE WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; COTTON FIBER; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; YOUNG ADULT;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 84884588611     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100950     Document Type: Article

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