Mortality and cancer incidence in a pooled cohort of US fire fighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950-2009)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 388-397

  Daniels, Robert D ^a   Kubale, Travis L ^a   Yiin, James H ^a   Dahm, Matthew M ^a   Hales, Thomas R ^a   Baris, Dalsu ^b   Zahm, Shelia H ^b   Beaumont, James J ^c   Waters, Kathleen M ^a   Pinkerton, Lynne E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

LONGITUDINAL STUDIES < METHODOLOGY, SPECIALITY;

ADULT; AGED; ASBESTOS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHICAGO; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHILADELPHIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 84900554402     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101662     Document Type: Article

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