Occupational lead exposure and associations with selected cancers: The Shanghai men’s and women’s health study cohorts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 97-103

  Liao, Linda M ^a   Friesen, Melissa C ^a   Xiang, Yong Bing ^b   Cai, Hui ^c   Koh, Dong Hee ^d   Ji, Bu Tian ^a   Yang, Gong ^c   Li, Hong Lan ^b   Locke, Sarah J ^a   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Zheng, Wei ^c   Gao, Yu Tang ^b   Shu, Xiao Ou ^c   Purdue, Mark P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENICITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; META ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; STOMACH CANCER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84952705666     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408171     Document Type: Article

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