A total of 1388 workers employed for at least 3 months at a copper/nickel smelter and nickel refinery were followed up for cancer from 1953 to 1987 through the Finnish Cancer Registry There were 1339 male and 49 female workers, making a total of 27130 and 706 person-years, respectively All of the wo
Update of cancer incidence among workers at a copper/nickel smelter and nickel refinery
β Scribed by Ahti Anttila; Eero Pukkala; Antero Aitio; Timo Rantanen; Sakari Karjalainen
- Book ID
- 106102952
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 343 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-0131
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