Farming and prostate cancer mortality

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 270-280

  Morrison, Howard ^a,b   Savitz, David ^b   Semenciw, Robert ^a   Hulka, Barbara ^b   Mao, Yang ^a   Morison, Deirdre ^c   Wigle, Donald ^a  

^a LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

Herbicides; Occupational medicine; Prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGROCHEMICALS; ALBERTA; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMAN; MALE; MANITOBA; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SASKATCHEWAN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CANCER INCIDENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY EFFECT; PROSTATE CANCER; REGRESSION TECHNIQUE;

CANADA, ALBERTA; CANADA, MANITOBA; CANADA, SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 0027330491     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116674     Document Type: Article

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