ASBESTOS EXPOSURE AND NEOPLASIA

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ASBESTOS EXPOSURE AND NEOPLASIA

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Sentinel Health Events (occupational): a basis for physician recognition and public health surveillance

The silence: the asbestos industry and early occupational cancer research--a case study

Prevalence of asbestos bodies in a necropsy series in East London: association with disease, occupation, and domiciliary address

A proportional study of cancer registrations of dockyard workers

Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma

Prevention of toxic environmental illness in the twenty-first century

Historical developments and perspectives in inorganic fiber toxicity in man

Asbestos fibers mediate transformation of monkey cells by exogenous plasmid DNA

Non-occupational asbestos related chest diseases in a small Anatolian village

Malignant mesothelioma in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers: clinical presentation, diagnosis, and causes of death.

Inorganic particles in human tissues and their association with neoplastic disease

Epidemiology of gastrointestinal cancer

Effects of ingested chrysotile on DNA synthesis in the gastrointestinal tract and liver of the rat

Elemental analysis of asbestos fibers by means of electron probe techniques

Respiratory cancer in relation to occupational exposures among retired asbestos workers

Mortality and morbidity among the working population of anthophyllite asbestos miners in Finland

A survey of occupational cancer in the rubber and cablemaking industries: results of five-year analysis, 1967-71

A study of the mortality of female asbestos workers

Mortality of asbestos workers in England and Wales 1971-81

A study of the histological cell types of lung cancer in workers suffering from asbestosis in the United Kingdom

A study of the mortality of workers in an asbestos factory

Cancer of the lung in iron ore (haematite) miners

Environmental epidemiology. 3. Community effects of nonoccupational environmental asbestos exposure

Mortality from lung cancer and other causes among workers in an asbestos textile factory

Study of the cell-transforming ability of amosite and crocidolite asbestos and the ability to induce changes in the metabolism and macromolecular binding of benzo(a)pyrene in C3H10T1/2 cells

Presentation of benzo(a)pyrene to microsomal enzymes by asbestos fibers in the Salmonella/mammalian microsome mutagenicity test

Accumulation of ingested asbestos fibers in rat tissues over time

Critical review of epidemiologic studies related to ingested asbestos

Cancer risk from asbestos in drinking water: summary of a case-control study in western Washington

Observations of cancer incidence surveillance in Duluth, Minnesota

Epidemiology of asbestos-related diseases

Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and lung cancer

Pleural calcification, pleural mesotheliomas, and bronchial cancers caused by tremolite dust

Use of cancer incidence data in identification of cancer causation

Mineral properties and their contributions to particle toxicity

Health effects of asbestos and nonasbestos fibers

History of asbestos related disease

Grand rounds: asbestos-related pericarditis in a boiler operator

Molecular pathogenesis of malignant mesothelioma

Call for an international ban on asbestos

Cancer incidence among members of the Norwegian trade union of insulation workers

Asbestos exposure, manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) genotype, and lung cancer risk

Italian National Register of Occupational Cancers: data system and findings

Health effects of exposure to high concentrations of automotive emissions. Studies in bridge and tunnel workers in New York City

Type of asbestos and respiratory cancer in the asbestos industry

Asbestos-dust exposures at various levels and mortality

Mortality experience in a group of asbestos workers

AMA registry on adverse reactions due to occupational exposures. An exegesis

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