Incidence and occupational pattern of leukaemias, lymphomas, and testicular tumours in Western Ireland over an 11 year period

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 651-656

  Kelleher, Cecily ^a   Newell, John ^a   MacDonagh White, Collette ^a   MacHale, Emer ^b   Egan, Ernest ^a   Connolly, Eugene ^a   Gough, Helen ^a   Delaney, Bettie ^a   Shryane, Eithne ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Western Health Board   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL;

CANCER; DISEASE; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IRELAND; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATION; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REGISTER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTIS TUMOR;

IRELAND;

EID: 0031712492     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.10.651     Document Type: Article

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