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Lung cancer risk in painters: A meta-analysis [1]

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified occupational exposure as a painter as being carcinogenic to humans based on a comprehensive review published in 1989. Guha et al. (p. 303) extend the previous review with a quantitative meta-analysis of occupation as a painter and lung cancer based on 47 independent cohort, linkage, and case

Publication Date: 
01/03/2010
Neela Guha [2], Franco Merletti [3], Nelson Kyle Steenland & et al [4]
Environmental Health Perspectives [5]
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Health Effects [6], Epidemiological Studies [7], Health [8], Lung Cancer [9], Paint [10], Occupational Health [11]
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