A cancer mortality study of 8,163 deaths occurring among persons formerly employed as laundering and dry cleaning workers in 28 states is described. Age-adjusted sex-race cause-specific proportionate mortality ratios (PMRs) and proportionate cancer mortality ratios (PCMRs) were computed for 1979 thr
Mortality in dry-cleaning workers: An update
โ Scribed by Avima M. Ruder; Elizabeth M. Ward; David P. Brown
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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