Occupational Exposure to Benzene and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in a Population-Based Cohort: The Shanghai Women’s Health Study
Bassig BA, Friesen MC, Vermeulen R, Shu XO, Purdue MP, Stewart PA, Xiang YB, Chow WH, Zheng T, Ji BT, Yang G, Linet MS, Hu W, Zhang H, Zheng W, Gao YT, Rothman N, Lan Q. Occupational Exposure to Benzene and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in a Population-Based Cohort: The Shanghai Women’s Health Study. Environmental Health Perspectives 2015, 123: 971-977. PMID: 25748391, PMCID: PMC4590744, DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408307.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-Hodgkin lymphomaShanghai Women's Health StudyWomen's Health StudyBenzene exposureHealth StudyNHL riskOccupational exposurePopulation-based prospective cohortCox proportional hazards modelInconsistent epidemiologic evidenceCancer Working GroupProportional hazards modelOccupational benzene exposureCumulative exposure levelsExposure tertilesUnexposed womenProspective cohortEpidemiologic evidenceHigh riskOccupational historyHazards modelExposure levelsWomenHigh associationExposure metrics