Use of meta-analyses by IARC working groups

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Straif, Kurt ^a   Stayner, Leslie ^b   Demers, Paul A ^c   Landrigan, Philip J ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Occupational Cancer Research Centre   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SMOKING;

ASBESTOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84930486565     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205397     Document Type: Article

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