Pesticides and cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 420-443

  Dich, Jan ^a,f   Zahm, Shelia Hoar ^b   Hanberg, Annika ^c   Adami, Hans Olov ^d,e  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f University Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Malignant lymphoma; Occupational exposure; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; ALDRIN; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; ATRAZINE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHLORDANE; CHLORDECONE; CHLOROPHENOL; CHLORPHENOTANE; CREOSOTE; DIELDRIN; DITHIOCARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HEPTACHLOR; HERBICIDE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LINDANE; MIREX; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIMIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; THIOUREA DERIVATIVE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

CANCER RISK; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS; CAUSALITY; CHLORDAN; CREOSOTE; DDT; DITIOCARB; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LEUKEMIA; LINDANE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MUTAGENS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PESTICIDES; PHENOLS; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SARCOMA; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0030751714     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018413522959     Document Type: Review

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