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Lung Cancer and Elemental Carbon Exposure in Trucking Industry Workers

Author(s) -

Eric Garshick,

Francine Laden,

Jaime E. Hart,

Mary E. Davis,

Ellen A. Eisen,

Thomas J. Smith

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1204989

Subject(s) - lung cancer , medicine , confidence interval , hazard ratio , confounding , exposure assessment , relative risk , environmental health , cohort study , proportional hazards model , cohort , cancer , trucking industry , occupational medicine , risk assessment , toxicology , occupational exposure , biology , engineering , computer security , computer science , truck , aerospace engineering

Diesel exhaust has been considered to be a probable lung carcinogen based on studies of occupationally exposed workers. Efforts to define lung cancer risk in these studies have been limited in part by lack of quantitative exposure estimates.

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