Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 10 , Pages 759-765 , October 2010

Long-Term Health Experience of Jet Engine Manufacturing Workers: IV. A Comparison of Central Nervous System Cancer Ascertainment Using Mortality and Incidence Data

  • Jeanine M. Buchanich, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Jeanine M. Buchanich, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Tel.: 412–624–3032; Fax: 412–624–9969.
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  • Ada O. Youk, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Gary M. Marsh, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Kathleen J. Kennedy, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
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  • Nurtan A. Esmen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
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  • Steven E. Lacey, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
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  • Roger Hancock, MCE

      Affiliations

    • Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
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  • Michael A. Cunningham, MS

      Affiliations

    • Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Frank S. Lieberman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuro-Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Mary Lou Fleissner, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT

Received 29 October 2009 ,Accepted 17 June 2010.

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 This work was supported by Pratt & Whitney Company, East Hartford, Connecticut.

PII: S1047-2797(10)00158-4

doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.06.008

Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 10 , Pages 759-765 , October 2010

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