New insights into the mortality risk from nasopharyngeal cancer in the national cancer institute formaldehyde worker cohort study

New insights into the mortality risk from nasopharyngeal cancer in the national cancer institute formaldehyde worker cohort study

Abstract Background Indications were found that a diagnostic bias could have contributed to the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) suggestion of a persistent increased mortality risk for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). Methods NCI provided the cohort data updated through 2004. We computed local county r...

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Main Authors: Matthias Möhner, Yimeng Liu, Gary M. Marsh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
Subjects:
Formaldehyde
Nasopharyngeal cancer
Cohort mortality study
Occupational health
National Cancer Institute
Re-analyses
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12995-019-0224-2

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