A review of epidemiologic studies of triazine herbicides and cancer

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 599-612

  Sathiakumar, Nalini ^a,b   Delzell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiologic studies; Triazine herbicides

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY CANCER; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

EID: 0031450647     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10408449709084405     Document Type: Review

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