A 39-year follow-up of the U.K. oil refinery and distribution center studies: results for kidney cancer and leukemia.

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Published in Environ Health Perspect on December 01, 1993

Authors

L Rushton1

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1: Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing, Thames Polytechnic, London, England.

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