Cancer mortality among Iowa farmers: Recent results, time trends, and lifestyle factors (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 311-319

  Cerhan, James R ^a   Cantor, Kenneth P ^b   Williamson, Kimberly ^a   Lynch, Charles F ^a   Torner, James C ^a   Burmeister, Leon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer motility; Farming; Lifestyle; Men; United States

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIP CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; STATISTICS; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IOWA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031819989     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008877204830     Document Type: Article

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