Mortality from cancer of the male reproductive tract and environmental exposure to the anti-androgen p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene in the United States

Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 334-339

  Cocco, Pierluigi ^a   Benichou, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT); Environment; Epidemiology; p,p' Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (p,p' DDE); Prostate cancer; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; CHLORPHENOTANE;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INSECTICIDES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031865915     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000011872     Document Type: Article

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