Identifying occupational carcinogens: An update from the IARC Monographs

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 593-603

  Loomis, Dana ^a   Guha, Neela ^a   Hall, Amy L ^a   Straif, Kurt ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

cancer; epidemiology; occupational exposures

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

CARCINOGENICITY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; TOXIC INHALATION; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE;

CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 85047942347     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2017-104944     Document Type: Review

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