Cancer mortality among workers in the German rubber industry: 1981-91

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 289-298

  Weiland, Stephan K ^a   Mundt, Kenneth A ^a,b   Keil, Ulrich ^a   Kraemer, Barbara ^a   Birk, Thomas ^a   Person, Michael ^a   Bucher, Annette M ^a,b   Straif, Kurt ^a   Schumann, Jutta ^a   Chambless, Lloyd ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Cohort study; Occupational epidemiology; Rubber industry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY;

EID: 9344260807     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.5.289     Document Type: Article

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