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Impact of occupational carcinogens on lung cancer risk in a general population
Author(s) -
Sara De Matteis,
Dario Consonni,
Jay H. Lubin,
Margaret A. Tucker,
Susan Peters,
Roel Vermeulen,
Hans Kromhout,
Pier Alberto Bertazzi,
Neil E. Caporaso,
Angela Cecilia Pesatori,
Sholom Wacholder,
Maria Teresa Landi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dys042
Subject(s) - lung cancer , asbestos , medicine , odds ratio , attributable risk , population , confidence interval , carcinogen , confounding , environmental health , occupational cancer , cancer , epidemiology , case control study , toxicology , biology , genetics , materials science , metallurgy
Exposure to occupational carcinogens is an important preventable cause of lung cancer. Most of the previous studies were in highly exposed industrial cohorts. Our aim was to quantify lung cancer burden attributable to occupational carcinogens in a general population.

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