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Impact of occupational carcinogens on lung cancer risk in a general population
31 Mar 2012
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: We applied a new job-exposure matrix (JEM) to translate lifetime work histories, collected by personal interview and coded into...
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