Dioxin exposure and cancer risk: A 15-year mortality study after the 'Seveso accident'

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 646-652

  Bertazzi, Pier Alberto ^a   Zocchetti, Carlo ^b   Guercilena, Stefano ^b   Consonni, Dario ^b   Tironi, Adriana ^b   Landi, Maria Teresa ^b   Pesatori, Angela Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Clinica del Lavoro L Devoto   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digestive cancer; Dioxins; Environmental health; Industrial disasters; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Mortality; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STOMACH CANCER;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARCINOGENS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030770295     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199710000-00006     Document Type: Article

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