Exposure-response estimates for diesel engine exhaust and lung cancer mortality based on data from three occupational cohorts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 172-177

  Vermeulen, Roel ^a   Silverman, Debra T ^b   Garshick, Eric ^c   Vlaanderen, Jelle ^a,d   Portengen, Lützen ^a   Steenland, Kyle ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CARBON; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84893429169     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306880     Document Type: Article

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