Risk of cancer among paper recycling workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 729-733

  Rix, Bo Andreassen ^a   Villadsen, Ebbe ^a   Engholm, Gerda ^a   Lynge, Elsebeth ^a  

^a DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Neoplasms; Occupational exposure; Paper industry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAPER INDUSTRY; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SMOKING;

EID: 9844228518     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.54.10.729     Document Type: Article

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