Occupational exposure and lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL.4, 2013, Pages

  Spyratos, Dionysios ^a   Zarogoulidis, Paul ^a,b   Porpodis, Konstantinos ^a   Tsakiridis, Kosmas ^c   Machairiotis, Nikolaos ^d   Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos ^d   Kougioumtzi, Ioanna ^d   Dryllis, Georgios ^e   Kallianos, Anastasios ^f   Rapti, Aggeliki ^f   Li, Chen ^g   Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b RUHRLANDKLINIK   (Germany)

^c Saint Luke Private Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

^e General Hospital of Syros   (Greece)

^f Hospital of Chest Diseases Sotiria   (Greece)

^g JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Lung cancer; Occupational disease

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; ASBESTOS; BERYLLIUM; BIS(CHLOROMETHYL) ETHER; CADMIUM; CHLOROMETHYL METHYL ETHER; CHROMIUM; COKE; NICKEL; PAINT; SILICON DIOXIDE;

CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PASSIVE SMOKING; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84904754461     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2013.07.09     Document Type: Short Survey

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