Cancer incidence among alachlor manufacturing workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 300-306

  Leet, Terry ^a,b,d   Acquavella, John ^b   Lynch, Charles ^c   Anne, Margaret ^b   Weiss, Noel S ^a   Vaughan, Thomas ^a   Checkoway, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d BJC HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

alachlor; cancer incidence; cohort study; colorectal cancer; herbicides

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR; HERBICIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ACETAMIDES; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IOWA; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0029775822     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199609)30:3<300::AID-AJIM8>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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